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... Virtue descendeth from on high that aids me 55 60 65 To lead him to behold thee and to hear thee . Now may it please thee to vouchsafe his coming ; 70 He seeketh Liberty , which is so dear , As knoweth he who life for her refuses . Thou ...
... Virtue descendeth from on high that aids me 55 60 65 To lead him to behold thee and to hear thee . Now may it please thee to vouchsafe his coming ; 70 He seeketh Liberty , which is so dear , As knoweth he who life for her refuses . Thou ...
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... Virtues did not put on , and without vice The others knew and followed all of them . But if thou know and can , some indication 25 30 35 Give us by which we may the sooner come Where Purgatory has its right beginning . " He answered ...
... Virtues did not put on , and without vice The others knew and followed all of them . But if thou know and can , some indication 25 30 35 Give us by which we may the sooner come Where Purgatory has its right beginning . " He answered ...
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... virtue , which is easily o'ercome , Put not to proof with the old Adversary , But thou from him who spurs it so , deliver . This last petition verily , dear Lord , Not for ourselves is made , who need it not , But for their sake who ...
... virtue , which is easily o'ercome , Put not to proof with the old Adversary , But thou from him who spurs it so , deliver . This last petition verily , dear Lord , Not for ourselves is made , who need it not , But for their sake who ...
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... Virtue is like an enemy avoided By all , as is a serpent , through misfortune Of place , or through bad habit that impels them ; On which account have so transformed their nature The dwellers in that miserable valley , It seems that ...
... Virtue is like an enemy avoided By all , as is a serpent , through misfortune Of place , or through bad habit that impels them ; On which account have so transformed their nature The dwellers in that miserable valley , It seems that ...
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... was simple , and is now made double By thy opinion , which makes certain to me , Here and elsewhere , that which I couple with it . The world forsooth is utterly deserted 50 55 By every virtue , as thou tellest me , And 82 THE DIVINE ...
... was simple , and is now made double By thy opinion , which makes certain to me , Here and elsewhere , that which I couple with it . The world forsooth is utterly deserted 50 55 By every virtue , as thou tellest me , And 82 THE DIVINE ...
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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.