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" And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and 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 it pregnant. "
The History of Vermont: With Descriptions, Physical and Topographical - Page 33
by Hosea Beckley - 1846 - 396 pages
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Ohio Educational Monthly, Volume 33

Education - 1884 - 664 pages
...but I never saw no good 'sense for there disappation. 9. Parse the words in SMALL CAPS : "And CHIEFLY THOU, O 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 wings outspread DOVE-LIKE SAT'ST BROODING...
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The Glasse of Time: In the First Age

Thomas Peyton - Bible - 1885 - 186 pages
...Heaven's judgments just to all man's future charge. We next cite Milton's invocation : — And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples...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...
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The Glasse of Time: In the First Age

Thomas Peyton - Bible - 1885 - 184 pages
...Heaven's judgments just to all man's future charge. We next cite Milton's invocation:— And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1886 - 634 pages
...soar Above th' Aonian mount,3 while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples...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...
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Christian Thought, Volume 1

Apologetics - 1886 - 436 pages
...another thing. Milton had reference to this moral and spiritual elevation when he said: " And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples,...th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest . . . . . . What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height...
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Poetical Works: Reprinted from the Chandos Poets. With Memoir, Explanatory ...

John Milton - 1886 - 630 pages
...Above th" Aonian mount,3 while it pursues Things nnattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thon, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thon know'st; thou from the first "Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding...
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Good Words, Volume 27

English periodicals - 1886 - 920 pages
...fidler inspiration, a prayer to the Holy Spirit — • " ' And chiefly Thou, О Spirit, that Host prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'et.' " " And that was after Cœdmon lived ?" " Hundreds of years after." "Do you know of any others,...
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Paradise Lost: Book I

John Milton - 1887 - 180 pages
...soar 15 Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O Spi'rit, that dost prefer Before all temples...upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; Thou from the first Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument...
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Queen's Quarterly, Volume 17

Humanities - 1910 - 404 pages
...more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God,' and then to this other : ' And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples...upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st.' A new stop in the organ has been pulled out and the deeper tone is in exact accord with the more solemn...
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L'Allegro, and Other Poems: Paradise Lost, Books I-III. With a Biographical ...

John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...soar Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhime. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples...upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding...
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