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... Italian Pilgrim's Progress Dante and Tacitus Dante's Landscapes Dante's Creed · • The Divina Commedia Vision of Drithelm • Purgatory of Saint Patrick Vision of the Monk of Evesham Vision of Turchill • 375 • 388 • 397 • 400 • 408 412 ...
... Italian Pilgrim's Progress Dante and Tacitus Dante's Landscapes Dante's Creed · • The Divina Commedia Vision of Drithelm • Purgatory of Saint Patrick Vision of the Monk of Evesham Vision of Turchill • 375 • 388 • 397 • 400 • 408 412 ...
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... Italy , grief's hostelry ! A ship without a pilot in great tempest ! No Lady thou of Provinces , but brothel ! That noble soul was so impatient , only At the sweet sound of his own native land , To make its citizen glad welcome there ...
... Italy , grief's hostelry ! A ship without a pilot in great tempest ! No Lady thou of Provinces , but brothel ! That noble soul was so impatient , only At the sweet sound of his own native land , To make its citizen glad welcome there ...
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... Italy are full 125 Of tyrants , and becometh a Marcellus Each peasant churl who plays the partisan ! My Florence ! well mayst thou contented be With this digression , that concerns thee not , Thanks to thy people who such forethought ...
... Italy are full 125 Of tyrants , and becometh a Marcellus Each peasant churl who plays the partisan ! My Florence ! well mayst thou contented be With this digression , that concerns thee not , Thanks to thy people who such forethought ...
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... Italy have slain , So that through others slowly she revives . The other , who in look doth comfort him , Governed the region where the water springs , The Moldau bears the Elbe , and Elbe the sea . His name was Ottocar ; and in ...
... Italy have slain , So that through others slowly she revives . The other , who in look doth comfort him , Governed the region where the water springs , The Moldau bears the Elbe , and Elbe the sea . His name was Ottocar ; and in ...
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... Italy a pilgrim . " By way of answer this I seemed to hear A little farther on than where I stood , Whereat I made myself still nearer heard . Among the rest I saw a shade that waited In aspect , and should any one ask how , Its chin it ...
... Italy a pilgrim . " By way of answer this I seemed to hear A little farther on than where I stood , Whereat I made myself still nearer heard . Among the rest I saw a shade that waited In aspect , and should any one ask how , Its chin it ...
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Page 267 - And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding, and answers. And when they saw him they were amazed : and his mother said unto him son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Page 344 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 333 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Page 279 - Created pure. But know that in the Soul Are many lesser Faculties that serve Reason as chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful Senses represent, She forms Imaginations, Aery shapes, Which Reason joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 335 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold ; and next to life, Our death, the tree of knowledge, grew fast by, Knowledge of good, bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 268 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Page 255 - And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Page 363 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 272 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and well talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon 's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies...
Page 250 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.