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... ether . In the words of an encyclopaedist printed by Caxton : AURORA , This air shineth night and day of resplendour perpetual and is so clear and shining that if a man were abiding in that part he should see all , one thing and another ...
... ether . In the words of an encyclopaedist printed by Caxton : AURORA , This air shineth night and day of resplendour perpetual and is so clear and shining that if a man were abiding in that part he should see all , one thing and another ...
Page 39
... ether : For nor in nothing nor in things Extreme and scatt'ring bright can love inhere ; Then as an angel face and wings Of air , not pure as it , yet pure doth wear , So thy love may be my love's sphere . The angel lore here is precise ...
... ether : For nor in nothing nor in things Extreme and scatt'ring bright can love inhere ; Then as an angel face and wings Of air , not pure as it , yet pure doth wear , So thy love may be my love's sphere . The angel lore here is precise ...
Page 57
... ether for purity . Just as angels took their shapes from the ether , so the devils took theirs from the air , their peculiar region . Noblest of all is fire , which next below the sphere of the moon enclosed the globe of air that girded ...
... ether for purity . Just as angels took their shapes from the ether , so the devils took theirs from the air , their peculiar region . Noblest of all is fire , which next below the sphere of the moon enclosed the globe of air that girded ...
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