Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her... Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ... - Page 96by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1839Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1898 - 492 pages
...steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs 56o And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, 565 Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1898 - 492 pages
...steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs 560 And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, 565 Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that... | |
| John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...of a prophecy ! Oh Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ? " — Ode to the West Wind. " These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
| Animal welfare - 1901 - 436 pages
...slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. " Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1911 - 708 pages
...steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs 560 And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, — These...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...slippery, steep, And narrow v'rge of crag-like agony, springs, And folds ovt the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance — These...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand. Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...slip]>ery, steep. And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength : And if. with infirm hand. Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
| Laozi - Philosophy, Chinese - 1904 - 210 pages
...Gentleness, forbearance, and humility are far away from the principles that govern modern conditions of life. "Gentleness, virtue, wisdom, and endurance : These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bar the pit over Destruction's strength !" IMITATING HEAVEN 153 sang the prophetic poet who companioned... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1905 - 498 pages
...slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free To suffer woes which... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1906 - 444 pages
...more or less compelled io let the psean of triumph rise highest and be heard last in the scale : — Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
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