 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...  Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 13by James Montgomery - 1833 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...inad'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." "Would that all could bear some such testimony to the truth as it is in Jesus, and... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...Reaion of Church (Internment, Sfc. " 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. " Say, first (for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell) ; say first, what... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...And made 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. 1 From Genesis i. 2, " And the Spirit of God brooded upon the waters" (Hebrew). As one... | |
 | Charles Augustus Ward - 1855 - 208 pages
...had the whole world for audience. But take his own words for his own intention : " That to the hight of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Homer proposes to himself the wrath of Achilles, to show that " for the King's offence,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...mildest 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 tract of hell ; say... | |
 | David Dobie - 1856 - 338 pages
...thou knowest ; — 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! CHAPTER VII. GENERAL RTTLES FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE. A RULE of interpretation, according... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...chaos ; » * * 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. — Milton. Ordinary persons, particularly children, are fonder of reading poetry... | |
 | 1856 - 540 pages
...before men. [M. de Carnd here cites, in a note, the famous lines of Milton, — " That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men."] : 'Such, likewise, must assuredly be the mission (whether they know it themselves,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Book i. Line 22. 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. Book i. Line 62. Yet from those flames No light ; but only darkness visible. Book i.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1856 - 812 pages
...light, and light for darkness, if this is not? PREDESTINATION CALMLY CONSIDERED. THAT to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — MILTON. 1. 1 AM inclined to believe, that many of those who enjoy the "faith which... | |
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