...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...Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument, 1 may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man."...

...Instruct me, for thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, 20* ^^P Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine : what ia low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument 1 may assert eternal Providence,...

...much worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line of Milton, What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. The sense clearly dictates the pause after 'illumine,' at the end of the third syllable, which, in...

...connexion; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, For ever rising, end in DEITY ! * What in me is dark Illumine! what is low, raise and support! Paradise Lost. MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES A SACRED DRAMA. Let me assert eternal Providence, And justify...

...Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspreud, 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And...Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell ; say first, what cause Moved...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...the "precious from the vile;" and in the beautiful words of the poet, may we put up the petition, " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support.'" CHAPTER II. THE article which stands first in these " Extracts," is one " from the Scottish Congregational...

...Instruct me, for thou knowest; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wing« outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And...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....

...the lowly strain, Be as the meek wild-flower's—if transient, yet not • / XX. PRAYER CONTINUED. What in me is dark Illumine; what is low raise and support. Far are the wings of intellect astray, MILTON. That strive not, Father ! to thy heavenly seat; They...