A Brief Notice of Some Recent Researches Respecting Dante AlighieriCochran, 1844 - 55 pages |
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14th century A. D. Popes according affirms altrui amongst appears Artaud ascribed to Dante Balbo banished Beatrice Portinari beauty Bianchi biographer Boccaccio British Museum Brunetto Latini Canto Canzone Cerchi character Charles of Valois Church cited Commedia commencement commentary Contemporary Events Convito copy Corso Donati Dante Alighieri death Divine Comedy edition Emperor Events of Dante's exile factions Florence Florentine Foscolo Francesco Francesco Buti Fraticelli Gemma gergo Ghibellins Giano della Bella Giotto Guelf Club Guelf party Guido Guido Cavalcanti Harl Harleian Henry VII historian Inferno Italian Italy Jacopo King language Latin Leonardo letter Macchiavelli Malispina Messer Neri noble Opere Minori Parad Paradiso passage Pelli period Petrarch Pisa poem Poet political Principal Events Purgatorio recent regarded Republic Roman Rome Rossetti says sentiments transcribed Tuscany Ubald Ubaldini Uguccione Uguccione della Faggiuola Veltro Verona verses Vieri virtù Vita di Dante Vita Nuova volume wife Witte writer written
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Page 25 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity: Think not, the King did banish thee, But thou the King.
Page 11 - How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people .' How is she become as a widow that was great
Page 6 - for in my mind Is fixed, and now strikes full upon my heart The dear, benign, paternal image, such As thine was, when so lately thou didst teach me The way for man to win
Page iii - Come la fronda che flette la cima Nel transito del vento e poi si leva Per la propria virtu che
Page 31 - Canson, vos pognes ir per tot le mond Namque locutus sum in lingua trina Ut gravis mea spina Si saccia per lo mondo, ogn
Page 32 - Yet if their deeper sense be inly waid, And the dim veile, with which from common view Their fairer parts are hid, aside be laid, Perhaps not vain they may appear to you.
Page 9 - the spirit of life which dwells in the most secret chamber of the heart began to tremble so violently, as to
Page v - d' altra guisa Che la voce non suona, ed esser puote Con intenzion da non esser derisa.
Page 23 - Nonne triumphales melius pexare capillos Et patrio, redeam si quando, abscondere canos Fronde sub inserta solitum flavescere, Sarno
Page 25 - The soul that this celestial grace adorns, In secret hides it not, But soon as to its earthly mate espoused, Displays it, until death : Gentle, obedient, alive to shame, In early age is seen; Careful the frame in beauty to improve,