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 World's Great Classics - Page 423edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
| Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 488 pages
...abyss Of radiance, clear and lofty, seem'd, methought, Three orbs of triple hue, dipt in one bound : a And, from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow...than little. O eternal Light ! Sole in Thyself that dwell 'st; and of Thyself Sole understood, past, present, or to come ; Thou smiledst, on that circling,... | |
| Luman Harris Tenney - 1914 - 232 pages
...break we off, as the good workman doth, That shapes the cloak according to the cloth." (p. 458). "Oh, speech! How feeble and how faint art thou, to give Conception birth." (p. 461) . JANUARY, 1865 1st. Sunday. After roll call earned a breakfast by chopping wood. Made a good... | |
| 1921 - 202 pages
...all combined in thee." Yet this is but the reflected glory of Him Who is the Beginning and the End: O Eternal Light! Sole in Thyself that dwell'st; and...past, present, or to come; Thou smiledst, on that circling, which in Thee Seem'd as reflected splendor, while I mused; For I therein, methouglit, in... | |
| 1921 - 648 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 ;... | |
| Kumudnatha Das̄a - 1922 - 174 pages
...to the sensual ear, but more endear'd Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone." (Keats.) 37. " Cf : " O speech ! How feeble and how faint art thou, to give Conception birth." (Dante.) V.— MISCELLANEOUS. 1. "f«N9" (The child)— Rabindranath like " Victor in Poesy," " Arictor... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1923 - 488 pages
...abyss Of radiance, clear and lofty, seem'd, methought, Three orbs of triple hue, dipt in one bound : 2 And, from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow...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
...abyss Of radience, 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, breath'd equally from both. Oh speech How feeble and how faint art thou, to give Conception birth!... | |
| 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'... | |
| Arthur Finley Scott - 1957 - 240 pages
...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...past, present, or to come; Thou smiledst, on that circling, which in Thee Seem'd as reflected splendour, while I mused; For I therein, methought, in... | |
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