Discourses on DanteHarvard University Press, 1924 - 200 pages |
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allegorical angels balance Banquet Beatrice beauty Bertran de Born blessed Bologna Brunetto Latini cæsura called canto canzone centre Chapter Church Convivio Dante Dante's Lyrics death Divine Comedy doth earth earthly eternal eyes faith Florence gaze gentle lady Giacomino Pugliese gift Giraut de Bornelh God's grace Guido Guinizelli happiness hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope human Italian Italy justice knew Ladies of Dante's language Latin light lines literary matter ment mind mysterious mystic never once Ovid Paradise peace perfect Peter Damian Petrarch philosophy poem poet poet's poetry predestined prose Provençal Purg Purgatory Raimbaut de Vaqueiras rimes shore Sicilian Sicilian School sigh sight song sonnet soul spake spirit stanza stars sweet syllables tell tenso thee theme things thou thought tion truth turned universe vernacular verse versified Virgil vision Vita Nuova voice wondrous words wrote
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Page 21 - Se mai continga che il Poema sacro, Al quale ha posto mano e Cielo e Terra, SI che m' ha fatto per più anni macro, Vinca la crudeltà, che fuor mi serra Del bello ovile, ov...
Page 12 - Quali per vetri trasparenti e tersi, o ver per acque nitide e tranquille, non sì profonde che i fondi sien persi, tornan de...
Page 11 - Venimmo a lei : O anima Lombarda, Come ti stavi altera e disdegnosa, E nel mover degli occhi onesta e tarda ! Ella non ci diceva alcuna cosa ; Ma lasciavane gir, solo sguardando A guisa di leon quando si posa.
Page 50 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 52 - And Saul arose from the earth ; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man : but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
Page 51 - And, as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 13 - Avere in sé, mi feria per la fronte Non di più colpo che soave vento; Per cui le fronde, tremolando pronte, Tutte quante piegavano alla parte U
Page 117 - Indo, e quivi non è chi ragioni Di CRISTO, nè chi legga, nè chi scriva ; E tutti i suoi voleri ed atti buoni Sono, quanto ragione umana vede, Senza peccato in vita o in sermoni. More non battezzato e senza fede; Ov...
Page 156 - clear himself of the perpetual infamy of his exile"; and that of Augustine, " for, by the process of his life, which was from bad to good, from good to better, and from better to best, he gave us example and teaching.
Page 96 - But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.