 Christians and proud! O poor and wretched ones! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness : know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect,2 imp'd with angel plumes, That to heaven's justice unobstructed...  Woodreve manor - Page 95by Anna Hanson Dorsey - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 414 pages
...proud ! O poor and wretehed ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust 111 Upon unstaid perverseness : Know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged inseet,-)- imp'd with angel plumes, That to heaven's justiee unobstrueted soars ? Why huoy ye up aloft... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1822
...proud ! O poor and wretehed ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust 111 Upon unstaid perverseness : Know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged inseet, f imp'd with angel plumes, That to heaven's justiee unobstrueted soars ? "Why buoy ye up aloft... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1822 - 402 pages
...stones, approflcheth : now, Ee'n now, may'st thou discern the pangs of each." Christians and proud ! O poor and wretched ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust 111 Upon unstaid perverseness : Know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...horror, if they believe it must be followed by immediate and intense suffering. Christians and proud ! O poor and wretched ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness : know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect1,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 636 pages
...wretched ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness : know yo not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect,1 imp'd with angel plumes, That to heaven's justice unobstructed soars? Why buoy ye up aloft... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 628 pages
...The eagles were of metal ; not worked on a standard, as Villanl supposed. Christians and proud ! O poor and wretched ones : That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upou unstaid perverseness : know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect,1... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1847 - 630 pages
...and proud ! O poor and wretched ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness : know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect', imp'd with angel plumes, That to heaven's justice unobstructed soars ? Why buoy ye up aloft your unfledged... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 pages
...combines, like Dante, with the sternest lesson the sweet anticipation of an immortal beauty, saying, " Know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect imp'd with angel plumes ?"f * In vita ejus. t "• *• But now the path mounts, and leads through... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 pages
...this mortal shall put on immortality.'' (Cor.) In anticipation of this immortal event, a poet asks — "Know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect imp'd with angel plumes ?" The ornithoptera of the tropics, is a magnificent butterfly, as large as... | |
 | Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 430 pages
...stones, approacheth : now, E'en now, mayst thou discern the pangs of each." Christians and proud ! O poor and wretched ones ! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness : know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect, imped... | |
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