 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
 | Robert Jefferson Breckinridge - Presbyterian Church - 1842 - 78 pages
...and down, gathering them as they may be found, and looking for the Master's second coming, who then " shall bring together every joint and member, and shall...an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection."* * Milton, Areopagitica ; Bacon, Essay on Truth. The highest kind of truth, ia doubtless, that which... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...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..., went up and down, gathering up • limb by limb, as they could find them. » (5) Alas ! for us the wit and wisdom of Plato, the « Truth severe in fairy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...imitating the careful search that leu made í г the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down ¡ratbcring up limb by limb, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Comiuniu ' nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; be shall bring together every joint... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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, tilTber "masTePs second'coming";" "hTsKall bring together every joint"and~Tiremb'er, ahtl shall iiuauld... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...since, the sad friends of Truth, such ю durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made W nature's womb, that in quaternian run Perpetual circle, ana mould them into an immortal feature of lordis«* and perfection. — AreopagUica. FROM 1649 PKSE... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1847 - 650 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,...up limb by limb still as they could find them. "We hare not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming;... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1847 - 792 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,...gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them." As the " sad friends of Truth," let us seek for her scattered limbs, and attempt something for the... | |
 | Theology - 1847 - 776 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,...gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them." As the " sad friends of Truth," let us seek for her scattered limbs, and attempt something for the... | |
 | Religion - 1847 - 782 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,...gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them." As the " sad fnends of Truth," let us seek for her scattered limbs, and attempt something for the restoration... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful N ! gatherin!? up limb by limb, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and... | |
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