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Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (5)
The tender plant, and withers all its shades; It lies uprooted from its genial bed, A lovely ruin now defac’d and dead.
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (3)
Never to thee presented art or nature Pleasure so great as the fair limbs wherein I was enclosed, which scattered are in earth. And if the highest...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (15)
It was with me as with a young tree that is planted in the ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the eye, especially if it...
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (Flowers:47-48)
Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village. (48) Death subdues a man...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (67)
Does it not afford its sap to that as well as to the others?
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (38)
Besides, I hear a great Howling and Lamentation, that all thy Servants cry Woe over thee, because thou plaguest them; and moreover, thou hast shed my...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XV (1)
A will benign, in which reveals itself Ever the love that righteously inspires, As in the iniquitous, cupidity, Silence imposed upon that dulcet...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (37)
Thou wild Beast, how comest thou so great and strong? Hast thou not trampled in my Garden of Roses, and there made thee a Couch? Where are thy...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXVIII. His Mother and Brethren Would Speak with Jesus—from Ship Talks to Hearers on the Shore: Three Parables on Seeds, One on the Candle (8)
but when the sun was up, because it had no depth of earth, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto I (6)
As soon as we were come to where the dew Fights with the sun, and, being in a part Where shadow falls, little evaporates, Both of his hands upon the...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXIV (1)
In that part of the youthful year wherein The Sun his locks beneath Aquarius tempers, And now the nights draw near to half the day, What time the...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (6)
O Covetousness, that mortals dost ingulf Beneath thee so, that no one hath the power Of drawing back his eyes from out thy waves! Full fairly...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXIII (3)
Note thou; and even as by me are uttered These words, so teach them unto those who live That life which is a running unto death; And bear in mind, whe...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIII (7)
And were it not that on the pass of Arno Some glimpses of him are remaining still, Those citizens, who afterwards rebuilt it Upon the ashes left by At...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXII (3)
In the same manner as our trees (when downward Falls the great light, with that together mingled Which after the celestial Lasca shines) Begin to swel...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (97)
And seeing they are too weak for this strong spirit, and cannot elevate themselves, they yield or surrender their noble power, and that smells so love...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (95)
And when this sweet mother has brought forth the fair, green, blue, white, red and yellow flowers, blossoms or children, then she grows quite weary, a...
Dhammapada
Chapter XI: Old Age (148)
This body is wasted, full of sickness, and frail; this heap of corruption breaks to pieces, life indeed ends in death.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (4)
The budding wood bears some; in time of spring, They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs."
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,...
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