The Vision: Or, Hell, Purgatory, and ParadiseSmith, 1844 - 188 pages |
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... unto us do signifie something in the state of heaven's happiness . " It was used by the Greek Fathers to signify merely a more recondite sense in a text of Scripture than that which the plain words offered . See Origen in Routh's ...
... unto us do signifie something in the state of heaven's happiness . " It was used by the Greek Fathers to signify merely a more recondite sense in a text of Scripture than that which the plain words offered . See Origen in Routh's ...
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... unto him , Go thy way ; for he is a chosen vessel unto me . " 2 There . ] This refers to " the immortal tribes , " v . 15 . St. Paul having been caught up to heaven . Cor . xii . 2 . 3 Thy soul is by vile fear assail'd . ] L'anima tua è ...
... unto him , Go thy way ; for he is a chosen vessel unto me . " 2 There . ] This refers to " the immortal tribes , " v . 15 . St. Paul having been caught up to heaven . Cor . xii . 2 . 3 Thy soul is by vile fear assail'd . ] L'anima tua è ...
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... unto the point of a lance , to be carried before his dead body as an ensign , a plain priest going before , and crying aloud unto the people in this sort , Saladin , Conqueror of the East , of all the greatness and riches he had in his ...
... unto the point of a lance , to be carried before his dead body as an ensign , a plain priest going before , and crying aloud unto the people in this sort , Saladin , Conqueror of the East , of all the greatness and riches he had in his ...
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... unto Ulysses , yet ignorantly inquires what is become of his own son . " Brown on Urne Burial . Ch . iv . 2 My fault . ] Dante felt remorse for not having returned an immediate answer to the inquiry of Cavalcante , from which delay he ...
... unto Ulysses , yet ignorantly inquires what is become of his own son . " Brown on Urne Burial . Ch . iv . 2 My fault . ] Dante felt remorse for not having returned an immediate answer to the inquiry of Cavalcante , from which delay he ...
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... unto goodness , them , Rapacious as ye are , do prostitute For gold and silver in adultery . Now must the trumpet sound for you , since yours Is the third chasm . Upon the following vault We now had mounted , where the rock impends ...
... unto goodness , them , Rapacious as ye are , do prostitute For gold and silver in adultery . Now must the trumpet sound for you , since yours Is the third chasm . Upon the following vault We now had mounted , where the rock impends ...
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Page 113 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Page 57 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 316 - And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not : I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Page 264 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Page 46 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 99 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 322 - Enters Alagna; in his Vicar Christ Himself a captive, and his mockery Acted again. Lo! to his holy lip The vinegar and gall once more applied ; And he 'twixt living robbers doom'd to bleed. Lo ! the new Pilate, of whose cruelty Such violence cannot fill the measure up, With no decree to sanction, pushes on Into the temple
Page 267 - So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
Page 127 - Colours variegated more Nor Turks nor Tartars e'er on cloth of state With interchangeable embroidery wove, Nor spread Arachne o'er her curious loom. As oft-times a light skiff moor'd to the shore, Stands part in water, part upon the land ; Or, as where dwells the greedy German boor, The beaver settles, watching for his prey ; So on the rim, that fenced the sand with rock, Sat perch'd the fiend of evil. In the void Glancing, his tail upturn'd, its venomous fork With sting like scorpion's arm'd.
Page 211 - The realm of sorrow, at mid breast from the ice Stood forth; and I in stature am more like A giant, than the giants are his arms. Mark now how great that whole must be, which suits With such a part. If he were beautiful As he is hideous now, and yet did dare To scowl upon his Maker, well from him May all our misery flow.