 Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it, Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein, as wild beast in his lair, When it attains it; and it can attain it; If not, then each desire would frustrate be....  The Journal of Speculative Philosophy - Page 3241886Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - English literature - 1876 - 344 pages
...arrived at in things demonstrable. Dante had this comparison in mind, it may be inferred, when he said, " Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect...itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair ; * " So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...arrived at in things demonstrable. Dante had this comparison in mind, it may be inferred, when he said, " Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it Beyond which nothing truell expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair ; * " So then they that are in the... | |
 | Philosophy - 1886 - 460 pages
...knowledge of God arc one and the same; both are the inheritance of humanity. As Dante says (" Paradise " iv, verse 124): " Well I perceive that never sated...his lair, When it attains it; and it can attain it; It' not, then each desire would frustrate he." Thus both forms of proof in their content and consummation... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 pages
...profound in As to suffice in rendering grace for grace ; Let Him, who sees and can, thereto respond. Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it, us Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein, as wild beast in his lair, When it attains... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 pages
...profound 121 As to suffice in rendering grace for grace ; Let Him, who sees and can, thereto respond. Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it, 125 Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein, as wild beast in his lair, When it... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 462 pages
...and oppositions of science falsely so called.'' U Tim. vi 20.) " Well I perce1ve that never sated IB Our intellect unless the Truth illume it Beyond which...attain it; If not, then each desire would frustrate be. Therefore springs up, in fashion of a shoot, Doubt at the foot of truth ; and this is nature, Which... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literature - 1890 - 434 pages
...I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it Beyond which nothing true l expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in...it ; If not, then each desire would frustrate be. Therefore springs up, in fashion of a shoot, Doubt at the foot of truth ; and this is nature, Which... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 480 pages
...sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illume it Beyond which nothing true l expands itself. It resta therein as wild beast in his lair, When it attains...it ; If not, then each desire would frustrate be. Therefore springs up, in fashion of a shoot, Doubt at the foot of truth ; and this is nature, Which... | |
 | American fiction - 1905 - 556 pages
...in any heaven of doubt, however, but far above, shall reason find its home as a wild beast its lair. Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect,...which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein as a wild beast in his lair When it attains it, and it can attain it If not each desire would frustrate... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 pages
...so profound As to suffice in rendering grace for grace ; Let Him, who sees and can, thereto respond. Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect...it ; If not, then each desire would frustrate be. Therefore springs up, in fashion of a shoot, Doubt at the foot of truth ; and this is nature, Which... | |
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