 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 σελίδες
...Bartholomew fair. His book is entitled, ' The Law of Population ;' his motto is ' That to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Man ; ' and after exulting in the triumphant overthrow of the rival ' principle,' he continues... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 σελίδες
...such 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... | |
 | 1831 - 478 σελίδες
...with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant i What in me is dark Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. Milton. " The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handy work !" This devout... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 σελίδες
...with mighty wings out-spread, 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 heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1832 - 450 σελίδες
...that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for 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 men.... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 σελίδες
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. 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, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 σελίδες
...with mighty wings outspread 20 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 ; 16 v. Ariosto Orl. Fur. ci st. 2. Orlando Innarn. di Boiardo, rifac. da Berni, lib. ii. c. xxx. st.... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 σελίδες
...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."... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - 1833 - 392 σελίδες
...the divine administration. And may the spirit of light and truth be imparted : " That to the height of this great argument , I may assert eternal Providence, ^ And justify the ways of God with man." I. It is alleged, that the introduction of moral evil, and its consequent miseries,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 σελίδες
...purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
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And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That, to the highth of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 
