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... punishment . Now inasmuch as never from the welfare Of its own subject can love turn its sight , From their own hatred all things are secure ; And since we cannot think of any being Standing alone , nor from the First divided , Of ...
... punishment . Now inasmuch as never from the welfare Of its own subject can love turn its sight , From their own hatred all things are secure ; And since we cannot think of any being Standing alone , nor from the First divided , Of ...
Page 99
... punished for it . What avarice doth is here made manifest In the purgation of these souls converted , And no more bitter pain the Mountain hath . Line 115. What avarice does is here made manifest Line 117. And no more bitter pain the ...
... punished for it . What avarice doth is here made manifest In the purgation of these souls converted , And no more bitter pain the Mountain hath . Line 115. What avarice does is here made manifest Line 117. And no more bitter pain the ...
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... punished . And were it not that I my thoughts uplifted , When I the passage heard where thou exclaimest , As if indignant , unto human nature , To what impellest thou not , O cursed hunger Of gold , the appetite of mortal men ...
... punished . And were it not that I my thoughts uplifted , When I the passage heard where thou exclaimest , As if indignant , unto human nature , To what impellest thou not , O cursed hunger Of gold , the appetite of mortal men ...
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... punished in himself the bite . Thy genius slumbers , if it deem it not For special reason so preeminent In height , and so inverted in its summit . And if thy vain imaginings had not been Water of Elsa round about thy mind , And Pyramus ...
... punished in himself the bite . Thy genius slumbers , if it deem it not For special reason so preeminent In height , and so inverted in its summit . And if thy vain imaginings had not been Water of Elsa round about thy mind , And Pyramus ...
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... punished sever- ally the Seven Deadly Sins . Rough stairways , cut in the rock , lead up from terrace to terrace , and on the summit is the garden of the Terrestrial Paradise . ― The Seven Sins punished in the Seven Circles are , 1 ...
... punished sever- ally the Seven Deadly Sins . Rough stairways , cut in the rock , lead up from terrace to terrace , and on the summit is the garden of the Terrestrial Paradise . ― The Seven Sins punished in the Seven Circles are , 1 ...
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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.