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Page 65
... feel fatigue , But urging up will be to them delight . " Then did I even as they do who are going With something on the head to them unknown , Unless the signs of others make them doubt , Wherefore the hand to ascertain is helpful , And ...
... feel fatigue , But urging up will be to them delight . " Then did I even as they do who are going With something on the head to them unknown , Unless the signs of others make them doubt , Wherefore the hand to ascertain is helpful , And ...
Page 77
... feel . " When we had reached the Angel benedight , With joyful voice he said : " Here enter in To stairway far less steep than are the others . " We mounting were , already thence departed , " " And " Beati misericordes was 30 35 Behind ...
... feel . " When we had reached the Angel benedight , With joyful voice he said : " Here enter in To stairway far less steep than are the others . " We mounting were , already thence departed , " " And " Beati misericordes was 30 35 Behind ...
Page 81
... feeling of so rough a texture ; For not an eye it suffered to stay open ; Whereat mine escort , faithful and sagacious , Drew near to me and offered me his shoulder . E'en as a blind man goes behind his guide , Lest he should wander ...
... feeling of so rough a texture ; For not an eye it suffered to stay open ; Whereat mine escort , faithful and sagacious , Drew near to me and offered me his shoulder . E'en as a blind man goes behind his guide , Lest he should wander ...
Page 107
... feel , Nor aught that may be foreign to its custom . Free is it here from every permutation ; What from itself ... Feels itself pure 107 PURGATORIO.
... feel , Nor aught that may be foreign to its custom . Free is it here from every permutation ; What from itself ... Feels itself pure 107 PURGATORIO.
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Dante Alighieri. It trembles here , whenever any soul Feels itself pure , so that it soars , or moves To mount aloft , and such a cry attends it . Of purity the will alone gives proof , Which , being wholly free to change its convent ...
Dante Alighieri. It trembles here , whenever any soul Feels itself pure , so that it soars , or moves To mount aloft , and such a cry attends it . Of purity the will alone gives proof , Which , being wholly free to change its convent ...
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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.