Dante, and Other Essays

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Kennikat Press, 1888 - 260 pages

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Books about American Poetry present the poetry written by American poets, who first gained world prominence during the 19th century, and have presented a distinctly American world view. Titles include: An Ode to Harvard, and Other Poems, Canzoni of Ezra Pound, Edgar Allan Poe, Cape Cod, Edward MacDowell; a great American tone poet, his life and music, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Harlem Shadows; The Poems of Claude McKay, Pocahontas, and Other Poems, Longfellow's Poetical Works, and Leaves of grass.

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Page 100 - Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things ? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
Page 55 - Perocch' io sono il suo fedel Bernardo. Quale è colui, che forse di Croazia Viene a veder la Veronica nostra, Che per 1' antica fama non si sazia, Ma dice nel pensier, fin che si mostra : Signor mio GESÙ CRISTO, Dio verace, Or fu sì fatta la sembianza vostra ? Tale era io mirando la vivace Carità di colui, che in questo mondo, Contemplando, gustò di quella pace.
Page 212 - To find no contradiction in the union of old and new; to contemplate the Ancient of Days and all his works with feelings as fresh, as if all had then sprang forth at the first creative fiat, characterizes the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it.
Page 164 - Benedictiis qui venis, e fior gittando di sopra e d" intorno, manìlins o date lilia flenis. Io vidi già nel cominciar del giorno, la parte orientai tutta rosata, e l'altro ciel di bel sereno adorno; e la faccia del sol nascere ombrata, si che per temperanza di vapori, l'occhio la sostenea lunga fiata.
Page 108 - Mentre che vegnon lieti gli occhi belli, Che lagrimando a te venir mi fenno, Seder ti puoi e puoi andar tra elli. Non aspettar mio dir più, nè mio cenno. Libero, dritto, sano è tuo arbitrio, E fallo fora non fare a suo senno; Perch' io te sopra te corono e mitrio.
Page 212 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 225 - That autumn eve was stilled: A last remains of sunset dimly burned O'er the far forests, like a torch-flame turned By the wind back upon its bearer's hand In one long flare of crimson ; as a brand, The woods beneath lay black.
Page 200 - The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was acquainted with them ; and I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency.
Page 64 - Minerva breathes— Apollo is my guide ; And new-born muses do the Bears display. Ye other few, who have look'd up on high For angels' food betimes, e'en here supplied Largely, but not enough to satisfy, — Mid the deep ocean ye your course may take, My track pursuing the pure waters through, Ere reunites the quickly-closing wake.
Page 47 - ... of the leaders of the White Guelfs. They were upstarts, purse-proud, vain, and coarse-minded ; and they dared to aspire to an ambition which they were too dull and too cowardly to pursue, when the game was in their hands. They wished to rule ; but when they might, they were afraid. The commons were on their side, the moderate men, the party of law, the lovers of republican government, and for the most part the magistrates ; but they shrank from their fortune, "more from cowardice than from goodness,...

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