 In that abyss Of radiance, clear and lofty, seem'd, methought, Three orbs of triple hue, dipt in one bound :* And, from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow: and the third Seem'd fire, breathed equally from both. O speech ! How feeble...  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise - Page 406by Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1923 - 488 pages
...methought, Three orbs of triple hue, dipt in one bound : 2 And, from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow : and the third Seem'd...birth. Yet this to what I saw Is less than little. JO eternal Light ! Sole in Thyself that dwell 'st; and of Thyself Sole understood, past, present, or... | |
 | Victor Branford - 1923 - 280 pages
...grace and honour high." THE vision of these and other perfections and graces is beyond words : "... Oh, speech, How feeble and how faint art thou To give conception birth ! " BUT in memory something of the rapture remains : "... for all the vision dies. As 'twere away ;... | |
 | University of North Dakota - 1920 - 388 pages
...reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow: and the third Seem'd fire, breath'd equally from both. Oh speech How feeble and how faint art thou, to give...Conception birth! yet this to what I saw Is less than little!"18 9. Inferno 111: 1-3 and 9. 1«. Inferno I11: 21-ZJ. 11. Paradise XXXIII: 93-102. Dante did... | |
 | Michael Oakeshott - 2004 - 472 pages
...ordinary use fail him; if he attempts to describe what he has seen the result is but a hideous parody. 0 speech! How feeble and how faint art thou, to give...Conception birth. Yet this to what I saw Is less than little.68 says Dante. And we remember that long-echoing cry with which Shelley ends his 'Epipsychidion'... | |
 | 308 pages
...from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow: and the third Seem'd fire, breath'd equally from both. O speech ! How feeble and how faint...which in thee Seem'd as reflected splendour, while I mus'd ; For I therein, methought, in its own hue Beheld our image painted: stedfastly I therefore por'd... | |
 | George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 pages
...reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow: and the third Seem'd fire, breath'd equally from both. 0 speech ! How feeble and how faint art thou, to give...which in thee Seem'd as reflected splendour, while I mus'd; For I therein, methought, in its own hue Beheld our image painted: stedfastly I therefore por'd... | |
 | 1881 - 692 pages
...one bound, And from another one reflected seemed, As rainbow is from rainbow ; and the third Seemed fire breathed equally from both. O speech, How feeble...birth ! Yet this to what I saw Is less than little. Oh, eternal light, Sole in thyself that dwellest, and of thyself Sole understood, past, present, or... | |
 | 1899 - 382 pages
...seem'd, methought, Three orbs of triple hue, dipt in one bound ; And, from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow : and the third Seem'd fire breathed equally from both. Oh, speech ! How feeble and how faint art thou, to give Conception birth. Yet this to what I saw Is... | |
 | 1922 - 366 pages
...and honour high." THE vision of these and other perfections and graces is beyond words : " . . . Oh, speech. How feeble and how faint art thou To give conception birth ! " BUT in memory something of the rapture remains : "... for all the vision die*, As 'twere away ;... | |
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