 | Robert Pollok - 1856 - 412 pages
...j-uttificd, <feo. : Reference is made to Milton, in his "Paradise Lost"— " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, Anil justify the ways of God to men."1 Bk. I. 22-28. Behind — surprising feat of theory ! 530 Were... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Siloa's brook, that flowed Fast by the oracle of God. Book i. Line 22. What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...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...cause Moved our grand parents, in that happy state, Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From then- Creator, and transgress his will For one restraint,... | |
 | Harold Bayley - Cosmology - 1912 - 394 pages
...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...this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men." 2 In the Kalevala — which, be it remembered, is not nominally... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...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...this great argument I may assert eternal providence And justify the ways of God to men. The placing of the pauses, the rise and fall of the emotion, the... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...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...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." The First ia taken, hint and form both, from Homer. Homer, girding... | |
 | Thomas O'Gorman - Advent - 1988 - 184 pages
...outspread, Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That, to the height...this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. V IRTUS Altissimi obumbrabit tibi. The power of the Most High will... | |
 | Kelly James Clark - Philosophy - 1990 - 172 pages
...too littie to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. — Blaise Pascal What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — John Milton, Paradise Lost 1. Evil and Design IN 1961 RUSSIAN... | |
 | Sky Phillips - History - 1992 - 324 pages
...member rises to speak, I'm tempted to steal from Paradise Lost, and say, What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence — " Beaming, Professor Ind joined him in the next line: "And justify the ways of God to man!" As... | |
 | Michael David O'Brien, Michael O'Brien - Fiction - 1996 - 608 pages
...it to Pawel while all around them evil men were shooting the innocent. What in me is dark, illumine, What is low, raise and support; That to the height...this great Argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. With what naïve joy he had read those words aloud. With what enthusiasm!... | |
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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. 
