 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Seite 3von John Milton - 1832 - 148 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1843 - 350 Seiten
...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 first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...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, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 Seiten
...conceived, stirr'd up with livid hate And fell ambition, venom of the mind. Milton : ''Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of...cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his will For one restraint,... | |
 | Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 452 Seiten
...prayer of Milton be answered — • 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 man." POETRY IN THE PRESENT AGE. The imaginative powers also seem to... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 336 Seiten
...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 II. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF HISTORY, FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM,... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant ; what in me is dork Illumim-, 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.' Neither is the mere eipression of passion genins. Genius supposes... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...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. SATAN MUSTERING THE REllEL ANGELS." THUS Satan, talking to his... | |
 | 1846 - 844 Seiten
...pupil, Cyriac Skinner. of the wickedness of his former life, invoke the aid of the HOLY SPIRIT, in order That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of GOD to man. The feeling of awe which these passages excite, is deepened as... | |
 | Asher Moore - 1847 - 222 Seiten
...explanation than the Scripture account itself. He says, addressing the SPIRIT, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of...cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor" d of Heav'n so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his will, For one restraint,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 Seiten
...me is dark, Illumine: what is low, raise and support; That, to the highth of this great argument, 1 may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say first, what cause Moved our... | |
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