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... Grace the experience reserves . If I was merely what of me thou newly Createdst , Love who governest the heaven , 65 70 Thou knowest , who didst lift me with thy light ! 75 When now the wheel , which thou dost make eternal Desiring thee ...
... Grace the experience reserves . If I was merely what of me thou newly Createdst , Love who governest the heaven , 65 70 Thou knowest , who didst lift me with thy light ! 75 When now the wheel , which thou dost make eternal Desiring thee ...
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... that nature makes . " Then it was clear to me how everywhere In heaven is Paradise , although the grace Of good supreme there rain not in one measure . 85 90 But as it comes to pass , if one food 18 The Divine Comedy.
... that nature makes . " Then it was clear to me how everywhere In heaven is Paradise , although the grace Of good supreme there rain not in one measure . 85 90 But as it comes to pass , if one food 18 The Divine Comedy.
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... grace for grace ; Let Him , who sees and can , thereto respond . Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it , Beyond which nothing true expands itself . It rests therein , as wild beast in his lair ...
... grace for grace ; Let Him , who sees and can , thereto respond . Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it , Beyond which nothing true expands itself . It rests therein , as wild beast in his lair ...
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Dante Alighieri. " O thou well - born , unto whom Grace concedes To see the thrones of the eternal triumph , Or ever yet the warfare be abandoned , With light that through the whole of heaven is spread Kindled are we , and hence if thou ...
Dante Alighieri. " O thou well - born , unto whom Grace concedes To see the thrones of the eternal triumph , Or ever yet the warfare be abandoned , With light that through the whole of heaven is spread Kindled are we , and hence if thou ...
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... grace ' it pleased with this high task To inspire me , and I gave me wholly to it , And to my Belisarius I commended 20 25 The arms , to which was heaven's right hand so joined It was a signal that I should repose . Now here to the ...
... grace ' it pleased with this high task To inspire me , and I gave me wholly to it , And to my Belisarius I commended 20 25 The arms , to which was heaven's right hand so joined It was a signal that I should repose . Now here to the ...
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Page 344 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 378 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 248 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 330 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Page 231 - s not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it Enter Musicians. Come, ho ! and wake Diana with a hymn : With sweetest touches pierce your mistress* ear And draw her home with music.
Page 352 - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Page 309 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives,...
Page 360 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm, And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow...
Page 350 - His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Page 232 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...