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" Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed. "
The Divine Comedy - Page 296
by Dante Alighieri - 1870
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The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art ..., Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 434 pages
...nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed ; And,...die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives." And again :— " All is best, though we oft doubt What the unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings...
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The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art ..., Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 440 pages
...holocaust, Prom out her ashy womb now teemed. Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most nnactivo deemed ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives." And again : — " All is best, though we oft doubt What the unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1886 - 468 pages
...that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second taows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed, Revives,...says Benvenuto. "Gouts and dropsies, catarrhs and oppilatious," says Jeremy Taylor. 125. Vanni Fucci, who calls himself a mule, was a bastard son of...
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The Friendship of Books: And Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 pages
...out her ashie womb now teem'd, Revives, re-flourishes, then vigorous most When most inactive deem'd, And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives." " Samson Agonistes " recalls me to the verses by another poet with which I began. The play is one of...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 13

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 466 pages
...nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From, out her ashy womb now teemed, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed ; And,...body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives."—M. with Palimpsests. We have backed upon each phoenix in the long regressus, and forced him...
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Milton's Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1890 - 262 pages
...third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed, . ' ' Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed ; And, though her body die, her fame survives, secular bird, ages of lives. Man. Come, come ; no time for lameutat^T now, 4' ' Nor much more cause./^...
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Aventures de Lyderic, comte de Flandre

Alexandre Dumas - French language - 1890 - 178 pages
...for a century or for centuries ; thus Milton (Samson Agonistes, 1. 1707) says of the Phœnix :— ' though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. ' And Tennyson speaks of future ages as ' the secular to-be ' (/« Memoriam, xli. ). (2) The ordinary...
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Longmans' School Composition

David Salmon - English language - 1890 - 318 pages
...archers.—Paradise Regained, III., 329-30. Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is.—Comus, 1-2. Though her body die her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.—Samson Agonistes, 1710-11. 98. Though the etymology of a word ought always to be kept in mind,...
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Longmans' School Composition

David Salmon - English language - 1890 - 322 pages
...archers.—Paradise Regained, III., 329-30. Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is.—Comus, 1-2. Though her body die her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.—Samson Agonistes, 1710-11. 98. Though the etymology of a word ought always to be kept in mind,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: English and Latin, Volume 2

John Milton - 1892 - 410 pages
...nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed. Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed ; And,...her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. Man. Come, come, no time for lamentation now, Nor much more cause. Samson hath quit himself Like Samson,...
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