 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Siloa's brook, that flowed Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the...the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1836 - 348 pages
...the Aonian mount, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine;... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...posterity to know, he counteth it their interest." Or with Milton : — "My adventurous song, Which, with no middle flight, intends to soar Above the Aonian...pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." Nursed in the schools, where as yet physical science was but a ridiculous collection of vague theories... | |
 | Charles James Burton - Bible - 1836 - 328 pages
...taking also the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism into consideration (Luke iii. 22). " Thou, from the first, Wast present ; and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant." DR. HALES. place, with utmost fitness of terms and signification,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 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...unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer LIVRE I. l A première désobéissance de l'Homme et le fruit de cet arbre... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aoniaii mount, while it pursues Things 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 - 1838 - 518 pages
...advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues is Things 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 ; thou from the first Wast present, and with... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...a son, and called his name Samson, and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. — Judges xiii. t And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me — what in me is il.nl. Illumine, what low, raise and support. — MILTON. Father of light and life... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...a son, and called his name Samson, and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.-—Judges xiii. t And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me—what in me is dark Illumine, what low, raise and support.—MIITON. Father of light and life!... | |
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That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 
