The Divine Comedy of Dante: A Handbook of Six LecturesB.W. Huebsch, Incorporated, 1921 - 45 pages |
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Abt Vogler angels B. W. HUEBSCH Banquet Beatific Vision beauty Boston Canto Canto XXVII Catholic Philosophy cents chapter Character of Dante Charles Circle Compare Dante's Dante Alighieri Dante and Catholic Dante's Divina Commedia Dante's effort Dante's view Dinsmore Divine Comedy edited Edward Howard Griggs elements Essays ethical teaching expression eyes of Beatrice Faust Francesca da Rimini Goethe Guelphs and Ghibellines Guido Cavalcanti hell Hettinger Hogan Houghton ILLUSTRATIONS imagery Inferno Introduction to Dante Italian Katharine Hillard lesson light London MA JUN Macmillan meaning Mediæval Love middle age Mifflin modern attitudes moral mystical Ozanam Paradiso perfect poem poetic poetry punishment Purgatorio Rakshasas Scartazzini Sense of Dante's Shadow of Dante significance sin and punishment smile soul Spiritual Sense stars STUDY AND DISCUSSION Study of Dante sublime symbol Symonds Teachings of Dante TOPICS FOR STUDY transcendent translated by Katharine truth Virgil virtue Vita Nuova volume Wicksteed ye who enter
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Page 15 - Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Page 18 - 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 19 - 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, 5 Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.* Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Page 11 - Epicurus' sty. DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GIOVANNI QUIRING SONNET He answers the foregoing Sonnet ; saying what he feels at the approach of Death THE King by whose rich grace His servants be With plenty beyond measure set to dwell Ordains that I my bitter wrath dispel And lift mine eyes to the great consistory ; Till, noting how in glorious quires agree The citizens of that fair citadel, To the Creator I His creature swell Their song, and all their love possesses me. So, when I contemplate the great reward...
Page 41 - The time-references in the Divina commedia and their bearing on the assumed date and duration of the vision.
Page 18 - Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost. Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipotence, The highest Wisdom and the primal Love. Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
Page 23 - The temporal fire and the eternal, Son, thou hast seen, and to a place art come Where of myself no farther I discern. By intellect and art I here have brought thee; Take thine own pleasure for thy guide henceforth; Beyond the steep ways and the narrow art thou.
Page 21 - If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously ! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely.
Page 33 - twas among the heavenly singers. To my right side I turned myself around, My duty to behold in Beatrice Either by words or gesture signified; And so translucent I beheld her eyes, So full of pleasure, that her countenance Surpassed its other and its latest wont.
Page 24 - Take thine own pleasure for thy guide henceforth ; Beyond the steep ways and the narrow art thou. Behold the sun, that shines upon thy forehead ; Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs Which of itself alone this land produces.