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
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 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,...went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as ihev could find them. We have not yet found them ill, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her... | |
| American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Iris made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limli by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, lords and commons ; nor... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1837 - 590 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,...found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do," he adds, indeed, " until her Master's second coming :" but the blessed clean of heart were not the... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 598 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,...he shall bring together every joint and member, and mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection." Among these dim and awful mysteries... | |
| 1838 - 604 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,...he shall bring together every joint and member, and mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection." Among these dim and awful mysteries... | |
| 1839 - 650 pages
...time," he continues, " ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris,...up limb by limb, still as they could find them . We hai'e not yet fnunil them alt, nor fivr sluitl do, tilt her Master" * second coming." Truly a sorrowful... | |
| John Brown - 1839 - 562 pages
...winds. From that time the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search which Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up...mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness It has not been deemed necessary to notice particularly any of the numerous replies* with which the... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 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, went up and down gathering limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor... | |
| William Hague - 1839 - 242 pages
...time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search which Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up every link still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such aa durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering limb by limb still aa they could find them." — MILTON. " CONSTANT'S journal from Rome, mother," said... | |
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