 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
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
..."What god was it that set them to conflict?" (Iliad 1.8) is immediately anlimb still as they would f1nd them. We have not yet found them all. Lords and Commons, nor ever shall doe. till her Masters second comming. (PM p. 317). swered: Apollo's anger at the king is what drove... | |
 | David M. Kaplan - Philosophy - 2004 - 534 pages
...friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangl'd body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb...they could find them. We have not yet found them all, . . . nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming . . . — To be still searching what we know... | |
 | Andrew Escobedo - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 284 pages
...dismemberment radically involves humankind in the temporal recreation of Truth in which the godly persist "up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them." The human effort to rebuild truth leads up to the final act of restoration, at the Apocalypse. Unlike... | |
 | John Durham Peters - Philosophy - 2010 - 318 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" (741-42). The whole passage is bizarre... | |
 | Balachandra Rajan, Joseph A. Wittreich - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 209 pages
...friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the carefull search that Isis 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, till her Masters second comming; he shall bring together every joynt and member, and shall mould... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - Political Science - 2006 - 400 pages
...friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the carefull search that Isis 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, till her Masters second comming; he shall bring together every joynt and member, and shall mould... | |
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