Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body... Retrospective Review - Page 12edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris,...shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mold them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. (II, 549-50) Milton intertwines two... | |
| Harold Skulsky - Christian poetry, English - 1995 - 140 pages
..."imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris." Like Isis they have gone "up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them"39 — find, not fabricate. It's absolutely crucial to the theory of knowledge on view here that... | |
| John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 308 pages
...complete: the sad friends of Truth . . . imitating the careful search that his made for the mangl'd body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb...found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall doe [sic], till her Masters second comming [sic] ... To be still searching what we know not, by what... | |
| Harold M. Weber - History - 1996 - 310 pages
...impossibility of regaining a past golden age. In this world such perfection can never be achieved: "We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons,...shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mold them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - Religion - 1997 - 244 pages
...scattered to the four winds; "from that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them." With Milton, we can only hope to re-member her torn body.57 To open the biblical canon is my concluding... | |
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