 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...and wild; A dungeon horrible on all sides round Dove-like satst brooding1 on the vast abyss, And made it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 From Genesis i. 2, " And the Spirit of God brooded upon the waters"... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mildest it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st...me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support. (17-23; my italics) Pregnancy and illumination are already contiguous. In Book 3, Milton isolates the... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...performed the original Creation: Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st...me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support . . . [1.19-23] For the poet himself is about to embark upon his own heroic work of building. Furthermore,... | |
 | Thomas O'Gorman - 1988 - 184 pages
...wings 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,...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 - 1990 - 172 pages
...seeing too much to deny and 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...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... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Was present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant:...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. [1-26]... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 pages
...Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st...Illumine, what is low raise and support: That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th'Eternal Providence 25 And justifie the wayes of God to... | |
 | Sky Phillips - 1992 - 324 pages
..."Sometimes in Parliament, when a 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...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... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st...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.... | |
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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. 
