The Vision of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1Methuen & Company, 1900 |
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Æneid Alberici Visio answer'd Arezzo ARGUMENT Beatrice beheld beneath Bianchi Boccaccio Bologna Brunetto called Canto Cavalcanti Charles of Anjou Charles of Valois Chaucer circle Convito cried Dante Dante's death descend Dittamondo Divina Commedia dost doth e'en earth edition evil exclaim'd exile eyes Fazio degli Uberti fear feet fell flame Florence Florentine Frezzi friar Ghibelline grief Guido Guido Cavalcanti Guido da Montefeltro hast hath heard heaven hell Hist honour Inferno King Landino Latin Lombardi lord Malebolge mark'd master mayst Milton ne'er o'er onward Ovid pass pass'd passage Petrarch Phlegyas Pistoia poem Poet Pope punished Purg Purgatory Quadrir Ravenna reach'd replied rock round says seem'd Shakspeare shalt side sinners sonnet soon soul spake speak spirit stood tell thee Tiraboschi torment translation turn'd Ugolino viii Villani Virgil Vita Nuova whence Wherefore words
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Page 90 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Page 14 - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
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 208 - These weeds of miserable flesh we wear; And do thou strip them off from us again.' Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That day and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth ! Why open'dst not upon us ? When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet...
Page 208 - Thou lookest so! Father, what ails thee?' Yet I shed no tear, nor answer'd all that day Nor the next night, until another sun Came out upon the world. When a faint beam Had to our doleful prison made its way, And in four countenances I descried The image of my own, on either hand Through agony I bit; and they, who thought I did it through desire of feeding, rose 0...
Page 7 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months ; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it ; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Page 15 - Here sighs, with lamentations and loud moans, Resounded through the air pierced by no star, That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds, Made up a tumult, that forever whirls Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd, Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies.
Page 5 - Have conn'd it o'er. My master thou, and guide ! Thou he from whom alone I have derived That style, which for its beauty into fame Exalts me. See the beast, from whom I fled. O save me from her, thou illustrious sage! For every vein and pulse throughout my frame She hath made tremble.
Page 216 - Of th' other two, Whose heads are under, from the murky jaw Who hangs, is Brutus : 8 lo ! how he doth writhe And speaks not.
Page 59 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.