 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
 | Blair Hoxby - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 332 pages
...that, like those whom Milton pictures in Areopagitica searching for the sundered pieces of Truth, going "up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them" (CP W 2 1549), England's citizens might set their disjointed counties side by side, keeping what was... | |
 | David Gay - Poetry - 2002 - 232 pages
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 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 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,...and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature0 of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place... | |
 | William Lee Miller - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth ... went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as...nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming." Truth is continually unfolding, flowing, and developing, and the effort to stop it and nail it down... | |
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