Dante, "the Central Man of All the World": A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1920 - 283 pages |
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Albertus Magnus angels appear ascend battle of Campaldino Beatific Vision Beatrice Beatrice Portinari beautiful Behold Blessed Brother Azarias Brunetto Latini Catholic Christ Christian Church Ciampolo circle Dante Dante's Dante's day Dantian death Divina Commedia Divine Comedy doctrine doth earth Empyrean eternal evil eyes face faith fire Florence Florentine flowers gaze gentle Ghibellines glory grace happiness hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell Holy honor human Inferno James Russell Lowell journey justice King lady light living look Lord ment mind moral mystical nature never Paradiso passion peace penance perfect poem poet poet's poetic Pope prayer punishment Purg Purgatory realm religion represented salvation says seen sing sinner sins smile soul speak sphere spirit splendor stars suffering supernatural sweet symbol teaching tell terrace thee things Thomas Aquinas thought tion truth turned unto Virgil virtue vision voice weep words writes XXXIII
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Page 18 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 126 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...
Page 141 - Alone we were, and no Suspicion near us. Oft-times by that reading Our eyes were drawn together, and the hue Fled from our alter'd cheek.
Page 159 - And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come.
Page 158 - And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to the sum of two thousand drachms of silver, he sent it to Jerusalem to offer a sin-offering, doing therein very well and honestly, in that he was mindful of the resurrection: for if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead...
Page 262 - A dame, to whom none openeth pleasure's gate More than to death, was, 'gainst his father's will, His stripling choice : and he did make her his, Before the spiritual court, by nuptial bonds, And in his father's sight : from day to day, Then loved her more devoutly.
Page 196 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, . > As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, f We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 286 - Within its depths I saw ingathered, bound by love in one volume, the scattered leaves of all the universe ; substance and accidents and their relations, as though together fused, after such fashion that what I tell of is one simple flame.
Page 148 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground which did weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will be like the Most High!
Page 102 - I recognise the virtue and the grace. Thou from a slave hast brought me unto freedom, By all those ways, by all the expedients, Whereby thou hadst the power of doing it. Preserve towards me thy magnificence, So that this soul of mine, which thou hast healed, Pleasing to thee be loosened from the body.