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... Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet: With an Analysis of the Divina ... - Page 149by Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dante Alighieri - 1814 - 262 pages
...147, — 3o. for rest, read rest, 177, — 22, for vltissimas, read altissinias VOL. I. HELL. CANTO I. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how rohust and rongh its growth, 5 Which to rememher ouly, my dismay Tifnews, in hitterness not far from... | |
| 1824 - 604 pages
...opening paragraph is thus translated out of the original rhyme into blank verse, by Carey ; — 715 718 " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from tbe path direct ; and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 508 pages
...-fifth year of the poet's age, AD 1300, and to have occupied three days. The poein opens as follows. ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray 1819.] Dante. Gone from the path direct and e'en to tell It were ho easy task, how savage wild That... | |
| 1842 - 622 pages
...surpassed by Scripture, but they are evidently of a different kind. The first book thus opens, — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1822 - 402 pages
...Purgatory; and that be shall then l> oondueted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. Isr the midway* of this our mortal life, I found me in...my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discovered there. How first I enterM... | |
| 1822 - 628 pages
...pensier rinuuova la paura. Tanto e amara, die poco e piu morte. " In the midway of this our mortal life 1 found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy tash, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough it's growth, Which to remember only, my dismay... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 414 pages
...the midway* of this our mortal life< 1 found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direet : and e'en to tell< It were no easy task, how savage...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Whieh to remember only, my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to diseourse of what... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1822
...Purgatory; and that he shall then be eondueted by Beatriee into Paradise. Ht follows the Roman poet, Is the midway* of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direet : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...Purgatory ; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway * of this our mortal life, I found me...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...that he shall then be condueted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direet : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough... | |
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