 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Dovolikc satjst broodingjpn the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant : What in me is dark, Jllummo ; what is low, raise and support ', That to the height...this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...the precincts of Bartholomew fair. His book is entitled, • The Law of Population ,' his motto is ' That to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Man ; ' and after exalting in the triumphant overthrow of the rival ' principle,' he continues... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...madest it pregnant: What in me is dark. 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. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1832 - 450 pages
...that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowest :• What in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and...may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. MILTON. IT is a part of our faith as Christians, that there is an influence, or commerce,... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...it pregnant : what in me is dark , Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Tous les maux punissant ce crime héréditaire , Jusqu'au jour où, du Ciel victime... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...stata detta prima.' Bowie, Pearce. w Instruct] Theoc. Id. xxii. 116. tiiri Bfd. ai> yap dlaOa. Newton, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, forheav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 pages
...with mighty wings 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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Book i. 1—25. The few other extracts which I make from this most extraordinary poem,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...power to accomplish his purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - 1833 - 392 pages
...are urged against the divine administration. And may the spirit of light and truth be imparted : " That to the height of this great argument , I may assert eternal Providence, ^ And justify the ways of God with man." I. It is alleged, that the introduction of moral evil, and its consequent miseries,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the hoight of this great argument I may assert eternal providence; And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
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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 pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is... 
