The Vision of Dante Alighieri, Or, Hell, Purgatory and ParadiseJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1910 - 451 pages |
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Æneid Angels answer'd appear'd ARGUMENT ascend aught beam Beatrice began behold beneath blessed Bologna Cacciaguida CANTO Cary Charles of Anjou Christ circle Conradin Convivio cried Dante Dante's daughter death descend Divine dost doth E'en e'er earth erewhile eternal evil exclaim'd eyes fell fix'd flame Florence Florentine gaze Geryon Ghibelline grace Guelf Guido Guido da Montefeltro hath hear heard Heaven holy human King light living look look'd Malebolge mark'd Moroello Malaspina mortal mount moved ne'er o'er onward Phaëton Pistoia Poet Pope Pope Boniface VIII Purg Purgatory reach'd replied rest round seem'd side Siena sight smile song Sordello soul spake speak sphere spirit stars Statius steps stood sweet tell thee thence thine things Thomas Aquinas thou hast thou mayst thou shalt thought truth turn'd unto Virgil virtue visage vision voice whence wherefore Wicksteed words
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Page ii - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES...
Page 1 - IN the midway * of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct ; and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
Page 50 - In brief, we all are monsters; that is, a composition of man and beast, wherein we must endeavour to be as the poets fancy that wise man Chiron, that is, to have the region of man above that of beast, and sense to sit but at the feet of reason.
Page 439 - Here thou to us, of charity and love, Art, as the noon-day torch ; and art, beneath, To mortal men, of hope a living spring. So mighty art thou, Lady, and so great, That he, who grace desireth, and comes not To thee for aidance, fain would have desire Fly without wings.
Page 4 - For every vein and pulse throughout my frame She hath made tremble." He, soon as he saw That I was weeping, answer'd, " Thou must needs Another way pursue, if thou wouldst 'scape From out that savage wilderness. This beast, At whom thou criest, her way will suffer none To pass, and no less hindrance makes than death : So bad and so accursed in her kind, That never sated is her ravenous will, Still after food P more craving than before.
Page xv - Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna legato con amore in un volume, ciò che per l'universo si squaderna; sustanze e accidenti e lor costume, quasi conflati insieme, per tal modo che ciò ch'i' dico è un semplice lume. La forma universal di questo nodo credo ch'i' vidi, perché più di largo, dicendo questo, mi sento ch'i
Page 22 - If thou art bent to know the primal root, From whence our love gat being, I will do As one, who weeps and tells his tale. One day, For our delight we read of Lancelot, How him love thrall'd.
Page 148 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake : for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Page 145 - Of th' other two, Whose heads are under, from the murky jaw Who hangs, is Brutus :* lo ! how he doth writhe • And speaks not. The other, Cassius, that appears So large of limb. But night now reascends; And it is time for parting. All is seen.
Page 141 - twixt the fifth day and sixth: Whence I betook me, now grown blind, to grope Over them all, and for three days aloud Called on them who were dead. Then, fasting got The mastery of grief.