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Passages similar to: Life of Pythagoras — CHAP. XIV.
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Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (2)
“The shining circlets of his golden hair, Which ev’n the Graces might be proud to wear, Instarr’d with gems and gold, bestrow the shore
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XV (12)
Thy rays are upon men’s faces; the golden glories they cannot be told: not to be described are thy beams
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto VII (4)
Gold and fine silver, and scarlet and pearl-white, The Indian wood resplendent and serene, Fresh emerald the moment it is broken, By herbage and by...
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (86)
"With splendour she hath decked them, she hath made them of lofty stature
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (28)
"With splendour she hath decked them, she hath made them of lofty stature
Enuma Elish
Tablet II (24)
"With splendour she hath decked them, she hath made them of lofty stature
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (128)
As rays of Light his locks flow forth, ending in acute points.
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIX (4)
These standards to the rearward longer were Than was my sight; and, as it seemed to me, Ten paces were the outermost apart. Under so fair a heaven as ...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto I (2)
Thou'lt see me come unto thy darling tree, And crown myself thereafter with those leaves Of which the theme and thou shall make me worthy. So seldom,...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (7)
I'll give thee a corollary still in grace, Nor think my speech will be to thee less dear If it spread out beyond my promise to thee. Those who in...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXXXIII (7)
For thou art the golden Form, with a couch of the heavenly orbs, with the Twinklers amongst whom thou goest round, and art renewed daily
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.17)
I see Thee with diadem, club, and discus; a mass of splendour shining everywhere, very hard to look at, all around blazing like burning fire and sun,...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIX (3)
The faculty that lends discourse to reason Did apprehend that they were candlesticks, And in the voices of the song "Hosanna!" Above them flamed the...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XX (1)
When he who all the world illuminates Out of our hemisphere so far descends That on all sides the daylight is consumed, The heaven, that erst by him...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (7)
In grace do us the grace that thou unveil Thy face to him, so that he may discern The second beauty which thou dost conceal." O splendour of the livin...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXII (3)
Now doubtest thou, and doubting thou art silent; But I will loosen for thee the strong bond In which thy subtile fancies hold thee fast. Within the...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXI (6)
Thus, as if going with mine eyes from vale To mount, I saw a part in the remoteness Surpass in splendour all the other front. And even as there where...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIII (4)
There is the Rose in which the Word Divine Became incarnate; there the lilies are By whose perfume the good way was discovered." Thus Beatrice; and...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VIII (1)
The world used in its peril to believe That the fair Cypria delirious love Rayed out, in the third epicycle turning; Wherefore not only unto her paid...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.11)
Wearing heavenly garlands and vestures, anointed with heavenly unguents, all-wonderful, resplendent, boundless, with faces on all sides.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXI (1)
In fashion then as of a snow-white rose Displayed itself to me the saintly host, Whom Christ in his own blood had made his bride, But the other host,...
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