 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...wings outspread Dove-like satst 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 25 I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. What part of speech... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 pages
...closely related to each other. — This will be illustrated by a slur over the pause thus shortened : — Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep track of hell. 4. Another expedient is, the employment of the Phrase of the Monotone, (and sometimes... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vaat abyss, And mad at it pregnant; what in me is dark Illumine, what is low, raise and support, That to the height of tltis great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.' Neither... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...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 we proceed in the poem, dogmatising... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...closely related to each other. — This will be illustrated by a slur over the pause thus shortened : — Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep track of hell. 4. Another expedient is, the employment of the Phrase of the Monotone, (and sometimes... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...clause is to be partially parenthesized, so as to preserve the connexion of sense, on each side of it. " Say first, for Heaven, (hides nothing from thy view,) Nor the deep tract of hell." i The crotchets of parenthesis are introduced here, not as belonging to the text, but as an ocular... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1848 - 426 pages
...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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.' To trace the ill effects of dissension, to exhibit the general tendences of virtue... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 pages
...trains of thought which occur in the opening passage of " Paradise Lost :" — " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope, in his " Essay on Man," professes to write with the same design ; and although... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...trains of thought which occur in the opening passage of " Paradise Lost :" — " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope, in his " Essay on Man," professes to write with the same design ; and although... | |
 | Bible - 1848 - 418 pages
...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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.' To trace the ill effects of dissension, to exhibit the general tendences of virtue... | |
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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... 
