 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, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it...  Paradise lost, a poem - Page 2by John Milton - 1823Full view - About this book
 | F. F. Bruce - 1994 - 444 pages
...touching them'.51 We may recall John Milton's apostrophe of the Spirit at the beginning of Paradise Lost: Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. 1 133 'And I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize in water - it was... | |
 | Peter Brooks - 1995 - 260 pages
...More appropriate still might be Milton's invocation of the Holy Spirit in book 1 of Paradise Lost: "Thou from the first / Wast present, and with mighty.../ Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss / And mad'st it pregnant." The image of the dove and her action of grace, effected on Christmas Eve and producing... | |
 | 1910 - 636 pages
...is Love, the magnet that uplifts and saves the world, and the word of Love is the expression of God. "And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest; *** What in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support," that, under thy loving care... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - 1996 - 166 pages
...Milton, whose portrayal of the Holy Spirit in the opening lines of Paradise Lost is androgynous: . . . thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant . . . (1.19-22) In this passage, which fascinated the English romantic poets, the... | |
 | David Richo - 1997 - 242 pages
...is God. There is no other I." Could freedom from fear be the same as letting go of ego? O Spirit... Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...outspread, Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine.... — Paradise Lost THE NET . ..the net whose every... | |
 | John Benjamin Pierce - 1998 - 256 pages
...God, 28. 15 In the opening invocation to Paradise Lost Milton addresses the Holy Spirit as Thou [who] from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant (1.19-22). All citations of Milton's poetry from Complete Poems and Major Prose,... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pages
...unattempted yet in Prose or Rime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st;...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of... | |
 | Adolphe Pictet - 2000 - 592 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th" upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest : thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...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 height... | |
 | John Rahn, Benjamin Boretz - 2001 - 208 pages
...Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world, and all our woe. [ Paradise Lost 1 1-3] God, who from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...brooding on the vast Abyss And madest it pregnant. [I 19-22] This God describes himself as he orders his Son (ho logosl to create the world with a word.... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2001 - 416 pages
...of Milton's invocation of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Paradise Lost (book 1, lines 19-22): Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. will be jeopardized by reciprocity or by Federal legislation, and the present antiquated... | |
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