 | Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1904 - 432 pages
...A mighty Babe, whose pure, unspotted Birth, From a chast Virgin wombe, should blesse the Earth. 21. But these vast Mysteries his senses smother, And Reason...Sonne should be mans Brother, Poseth his proudest Intelledtuall power. How a pure Spirit should incarnate bee, And life it selfe weare Deaths fraile... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1927 - 586 pages
...A mighty Babe, whose pure, unspotted Birth, From a chast Virgin wombe, should blesse the Earth. 21. But these vast Mysteries his senses smother, And Reason...bee, And life it selfe weare Deaths fraile Livery. 18-6 sailes] snailes TA: sailes TB corr. 18-7 Aire,] Ayre T shade,] shade : T 19-2 too] soe T 19-3... | |
 | Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts - Civilization - 1984 - 290 pages
...Satan is the fully conscious onlooker. He cannot understand the real significance of what he sees — How she that is a maid should prove a Mother. Yet...bee. And life it selfe weare Deaths fraile Livery. (21) In such passages, for all the metaphysical paradoxes, one is conscious of a Spenserian tone and... | |
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How she that is a maid should prove a Mother, Yet keepe inviolate her virgin flower ; How Gods eternall Sonne should be mans Brother, Poseth his proudest Intellectuall power. 
