"Trine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scheme," replied the astrologer, rapidly tracing a figure on a sheet of paper. "The question refers to the seventh house. I shall take Venus as the natural significatrix of the lady. The moon is in trine with the lord of the ascendant,—so far, good; but there is a cross aspect from Mars, who darts forth malicious rays upon them. Your suit will probably be thwarted. But what Mars bindeth, Venus dissolveth. It is not wholly hopeless. ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... that God is a Man, it follows that those who are of the church where the Word is, if they shun and turn away from evils as sins, see, from the light of heaven in which they then are, the Divine in the Lord's Human, and the trine in Him, and Himself to be the God of heaven and earth. But those who by intelligence from what is their own (proprium) have destroyed in themselves the idea of God as a Man are unable to see this; neither do they see from the trinity that is in their thought that God is one; they call Him one ...
— Spiritual Life and the Word of God • Emanuel Swedenborg
... Jesus to the Jordan came To honour there the rite divine, Then, to the world, His awful claim Was witnessed by the Godhead Trine. ...
— Hymns from the Morningland - Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service - Books of the Holy Eastern Church • Various
... aspects sextile, quartile, trine, conjoined, or opposite; houses of heaven, with their cusps, hours, and minutes; almuten, almochoden, anabibazon, catabibazon; a thousand terms of equal sound and significance, poured thick and threefold upon the unshrinking Dominie, whose stubborn incredulity ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... and grace of growth, I have thought best to symbolize to you, in the series of types of the power of the Greek gods, placed in your educational series, by the blossom of the wild strawberry; which in rising from its trine cluster of trine leaves,—itself as beautiful as a white rose, and always single on its stalk, like an ear of corn, yet with a succeeding blossom at its side, and bearing a fruit which is as distinctly a group of seeds as an ear ...
— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin
... is one of the most complete and effectual deadeners of inspiration. The delicate intimations of finer things can make no impression on a hide-bound mind. As Trine somewhere puts it—"The man who is always thinking of himself generally looks as if he were thinking of something disagreeable." The self-centred mind is a mind closed to other things, and to this extent it is nearly always unbalanced and distorted. Under ...
— Spirit and Music • H. Ernest Hunt
... do against the Goddess trine, Selene, Artemis, and Proserpine? Oh love, thou hast before thee life and fame, And some new Glycera with a loftier name. So tender is my heart, that it would break, To think that thou wert suffering for my sake. Be angry with me; doubt my faith—or try; And ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... then, bouse, mort, and ken [33] the bien coue's bingd awast; [34] On chates to trine, by Rome-coues dine [35] for his long lib ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... has ceased to shine; By companies of twain and trine Stars gather; from the sea The ...
— Gloucester Moors and Other Poems • William Vaughn Moody
... Divine trinity or trine in one person, constituting one God, is conceivable, but not in three ...
— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg |
