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Acrisius adore art thou Atrides Bellerophon Beneath blast blessed blest BOOK I. O. boon breath breeze bright Cæsar's Chloë Chloe's reign courser crown'd Danaë dear death Deiphobus doom door doubly dream earth elms endless round Enipeus envied eyes Faith and Hope fame fancies fate would keep fear fire flowers Formian frost glowing gold Graces Hadria's hand happy harp Hath heart Heaven Hippolytus Holy human Icarian Idomeneus Inachus Jove keep alive La Mole labour Lest Live lord lute Lycus Lydia Mæcenas maiden mind Mole Muse noble Nymphs o'er once Peleus Persia's Phantom Bride Pirithous poor praise prayer pride Prince Quod Deus vult ripen'd rival kings shadows shame sigh song soul spring stamp'd Stesichorus Sthenelus stream strife sweet Teucer thee Theseus thine thought truth Venus vex'd wanton wealth weep Whereon whirl wild wind wine wintry wisdom youth
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Page 49 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High, Whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him : and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we upon earth ; therefore it behoveth our words to be wary...
Page 50 - Non è il mondan romore altro che un fiato Di vento, che or vien quinci ed or vien quindi, E muta nome, perchè muta lato.
Page 48 - The dim and bounded intellect of man seldom prosperously adventures to be dogmatical about things that approach to infinite, whether in vastncss or little ness.