The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno--Purgatorio--and Paradiso, Volume 3

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T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1802
 

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Page 380 - His love, high God all heav'n as captive leads, And all the banners of his grace dispreads, And in those...
Page 375 - How can such joy as this want words to speak? And yet what words can speak such joy as this ? Far from the world, that might their quiet break, Here the glad souls the face of beauty kiss, Poured out in pleasure, on their beds of bliss.
Page 375 - Pitch round about, in order glorious, Their sunny tents and houses luminous; All their eternal day in songs employing, Joying their end, without end of their joying, While their Almighty Prince destruction is destroying.
Page 375 - Where never sun did rise, nor ever sat ; But one eternal day and endless light Gives time to those whose time is infinite — Speaking with thought, obtaining without fee, Beholding Him whom never eye could see, And magnifying Him that cannot greater be. How can such joy as this want words to speak ? (And yet what words can speak such joy as this ? Far from the world that might their quiet break...
Page 6 - ... to the mind, when we perceive any object. It ought to be carefully observed, that, in order to the mind's perceiving any object, it is absolutely necessary that the idea of that object be actually present to it. Of this it is not possible to doubt. The things which the soul perceives are of two kinds. They are either in the soul, or they are without the soul : those that are in the soul are its . own thoughts, that is to say, all its different modifications. The soul has no need of ideas for...
Page 392 - They difregarded their monaftic character and profeflion, and were employed, not only in fpiritual matters, but in temporal affairs of the greateft confequence; in compofing the differences of princes, concluding treaties of peace, and concerting alliances: they prefided in cabinet councils, levied national fubfidies, influenced courts, and managed the machines of every important operation and event, both in the religious and political world.
Page 5 - ... objects by the senses. Mr. Bayle imagines that some traces of this opinion of Malebranche are to be found in Amelius the Platonist, and even in Democritus; but his authorities seem to be strained.
Page 376 - No loss, no grief, no change wait on their winged hours. But now their naked bodies scorn the cold, And from their eyes joy looks, and laughs at pain ; The infant wonders how he came so old...
Page 376 - Goodness fills, That nothing here is wanting but the want of ills. No sorrow now hangs clouding on their brow, No...
Page 377 - In midft of this city celeftial, Where the eternal Temple fhould have rofe, Lightened the Idea Beatifical, End and beginning of each thing that grows ; Whofe felf no end nor yet beginning knows, That hath no eyes to fee, nor ears to hear, Yet fees and hears, and is all eye, all ear, That nowhere is contained, and yet is everywhere.

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