 | Robert Wilson Evans - 1852 - 190 psl.
...consecutive lines making perfect verses between them. But such confusion cannot happen in Ib. i. 22. And mad'st it pregnant. | What in me is dark Illumine....support, That to the height | of this great argument. But this fault can be avoided by no possible care by the composer of the Alexandrine. It is plain that... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 330 psl.
...Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; " v. Ariosto Orl. Fur. ci. St. 2. Orlando Innam. di Boiardo, rifac. da Berni, lib. ii. c. xzx. st.... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 psl.
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 psl.
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 psl.
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 554 psl.
...retained in our authorized translation, has been twice preserved with great effect in the Paradise Lo»t. Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. I. 19. ' On the wat'ry calm His brooding wings the spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infus'd.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 psl.
...of true religion, as our own Milton, who commenced his immortal epic thus: — "And chiefly Thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright...outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And inad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height... | |
 | John Milton, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 324 psl.
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abysSj And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine;...this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways ofjjgjJUjjnen. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, I^or the... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 psl.
...intends to soar Above the Aoniau mount, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit ! that dost prefer Before...Instruct me, for thou know'st ; — thou from the first AVast present, and with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding3 on the vast abyss, And... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 psl.
...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...abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : What in me is dark — " 7. On!-, or llurcb, and Sinai are two peaks of the lame mountain range between the (iulfs of... | |
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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 pregnant... 
