 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
 | Frank Sewall - Faust - 1893 - 168 pages
...true in the form of truth. Dr. Harris says that this, according to Dante, is revealed and knowable : Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless the Truth illumine it — Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1895 - 870 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... | |
 | Edmund G. Gardner - 1898 - 332 pages
...secondary importance. It is indeed to this liberty of the will that the sanctity of a vow is due: — 1 Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect...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 to... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 488 pages
...intellect unless Truth illume it, Beyond -which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein, as a wild beast in his lair, When it attains it ; and it...attain it ; If not, then each desire would frustrate be.1 There are three writers in the Bible who make religion to consist in a knowledge of God ; the... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - Poets, Italian - 1903 - 480 pages
...unless Truth illume it, Beyond which nothing true expands itself. It rests therein, as a wild boast in his lair, When it attains it ; and it can attain it ; If not, then each desire would frustrate be.1 There are three writers in the Bible who make religion to consist in a knowledge of God ; the... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 490 pages
...the truth divine power comes into the will. Well I perceive that never sated is Our intellect unless Truth illume it, Beyond 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, then each desire would... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1904 - 388 pages
...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 true 2 expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair, When it attains it; and it can attain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 388 pages
...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 true 2 expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair, When it attains it; and it can attain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 392 pages
...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 true2 expands itself. It rests therein as wild beast in his lair, When it attains it; and it can attain... | |
 | American fiction - 1905 - 548 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... | |
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