 And chiefly Thou. O Spirit, that dost prefer 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:...  The History of English - Էջ 163Scott Shay - 2007 - 232 էջՄասամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 էջ
...Instruft me, forThou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 19 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 էջ
...ihither prone in flight He speeds,-— and through the vast ethereal sky. v. 267. Up on the third, what in me is dark Illumine, — what is low raise and support; !. 23. as th/-' wakeful hird Sines darkling, — and in shadiest covert hid. iii. 39. Upon the fourth,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 էջ
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, 21 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, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men.... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 էջ
...Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread zo Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men.... | |
 | 1806 - 408 էջ
...Thou know'st ; Thou from th& first Wast present, 'and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satt'st •brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...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.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 էջ
...cases it is best to sacrifice sound to sense. For instance, in the following lines of Milton : — — What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. The sense clearly dictates the pause after « illumine," which ought to be observed ; though, if melody... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 էջ
...heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st : thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty Vings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss,...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.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 էջ
...yet in prose or rhvme. >f- •*And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st;...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 Ged to men.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 էջ
...mighty wingsout spread. Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : whnt in me is dark. Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 էջ
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line of Milton, -" What in me is dark, " Illumine ; what is low, raise and support :" the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine, at the end of the third syllable, which, in... | |
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