 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st...first Wast present, and 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,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the...unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, 0, Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted...the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowest : Thou from the first 20 Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1841 - 128 pages
...Samaritans, that they worshipped God under the form of a dove. This was Milton's poetical worship:— " Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...brooding on the vast abyss. And mad'st it pregnant." Altogether it seems a natural conception, this of the spirit descending like a dove. There was mythical... | |
 | James Harris - Philosophy, Modern - 1841 - 616 pages
...of hatred, but of love. When, in the beginning of the Paradise Lost, we read the following address : And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer, Before...upright heart, and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st this is not to be called an imperative sentence, though perhaps it bear the same form, but rather (if... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Historical fiction - 1842 - 464 pages
...minute, they had passed a hundred yards ahead, and the sound of their movements was lost. CHAPTER X. "And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer, Before...upright heart and pure, Instruct me ; for thou know.st" MILTON. not, though the entrance is beneath a low, natural arch ; the basin within being open to the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1842 - 308 pages
...more they had passed a hundred yards ahead, and the sound of their movements was lost. CHAPTER VI. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer, Before...upright heart and pure, Instruct me ; for thou know'st. MILTON. THE spot in which Carlo Giuntotardi had taken refuge is well known on the Sorrentine shore... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the...Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the height... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...monnl , while it pursues Things unaltemptcd yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, О Spirit, lhat dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and...abyss , And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark 172 173 :o!ombe tu couvas l'immense abîme et tu le ren..« fécond. Illumine en moi ce qui est obscur,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...164 165 •' And chiefly thon, О Spirit, that dost prefer Before nil temples the upright heart und pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the...outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And rrmd'nl it pregnant ; what in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height... | |
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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 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant... 
