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... rest I'll deal in other fashion ! ' Well knowest thou how in the air is gathered That humid vapor which to water turns , Soon as it rises where the cold doth grasp it . He joined that evil will , which aye seeks evil , To intellect ...
... rest I'll deal in other fashion ! ' Well knowest thou how in the air is gathered That humid vapor which to water turns , Soon as it rises where the cold doth grasp it . He joined that evil will , which aye seeks evil , To intellect ...
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... rests massively , Porphyry seemed to me , as flaming red As blood that from a vein is spirting forth . Both of his feet was holding upon this The Angel of God , upon the threshold seated , Which seemed to me a stone of diamond . Along ...
... rests massively , Porphyry seemed to me , as flaming red As blood that from a vein is spirting forth . Both of his feet was holding upon this The Angel of God , upon the threshold seated , Which seemed to me a stone of diamond . Along ...
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... rest , Than we were forth from out that needle's But when we free and in the open were , There where the mountain backward piles itself , I wearied out , and both of us uncertain eye ; About our way , we stopped upon a plain More ...
... rest , Than we were forth from out that needle's But when we free and in the open were , There where the mountain backward piles itself , I wearied out , and both of us uncertain eye ; About our way , we stopped upon a plain More ...
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... rest E'er since he died ; such money renders back In payment he who is on earth too daring . " And I : " If every spirit who awaits The verge of life before that he repent , Remains below there and ascends not hither ( Unless good ...
... rest E'er since he died ; such money renders back In payment he who is on earth too daring . " And I : " If every spirit who awaits The verge of life before that he repent , Remains below there and ascends not hither ( Unless good ...
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... rest I saw a shade that waited In aspect , and should any one ask how , Its chin it lifted upward like a blind man . " Spirit , " I said , " who stoopest to ascend , If thou art he who did reply to me , 95 100 Make thyself known to me ...
... rest I saw a shade that waited In aspect , and should any one ask how , Its chin it lifted upward like a blind man . " Spirit , " I said , " who stoopest to ascend , If thou art he who did reply to me , 95 100 Make thyself known to me ...
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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.