 Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is...  A Treatise on Versification - Page 50by Robert Wilson Evans - 1852 - 169 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...first Wast present, und, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, / 3[ i H ^ew."ê þ - 4 Ñ Ex , QF]f 'wH of this great argument I may assort eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first,... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...first, Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark, Illumine...what is low, raise and support ; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — Say... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...lir-i Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss. walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much of this great argument v I may assert eternal Providence, •> And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pages
...Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And rrmd'nl it pregnant ; what in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height ofthis great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." '•Henceforth... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 448 pages
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 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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 | Hannah More - 1843 - 456 pages
...connection ; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, Forever rising, end in DEITY ! * What in me is dark Illumine ! what is low raise and support ! Paraditt MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES; A SACRED DRAMA:.- " ..-• .. • . .•" -. •.: . . • :r Let... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 336 pages
...first "Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine...what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify, the ways of God to men." CHAPTER... | |
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