 | Dante Alighieri - 1814 - 262 pages
...speech.* " O wearied spiiits! come, and hold discourse With us, if hy none else restrain'd." As doves 80 By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted hy their will along; Thus issn'd from that troop, where Dido ranks, They throngh the ill air speeding;... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...wind Swayed them towaid us, I thus framed my speech . " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained. " As doves By...returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; They came ....;-.--- Then, turning, J to them my speech addressed, And thus began — " Francesca... | |
 | Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 pages
...pace L'Orient bore him on his way, seeming to have imbibed the anxious feelings of his master; and " as doves, by fond desire invited, on wide wings and...home, cleave the air, wafted by their will along, they came." Edgar had been nine months absent, and was now approaching his eighteenth year ; his graceful... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 pages
...pace L'Orient bore him on his way, seeming to have imbibed the anxious feelings of his master; and " as doves, by fond desire invited, on wide wings and...home, cleave the air, wafted by their will along, they came." Edgar had been nine months absent, and was now approaching his eighteenth year ; his .graceful... | |
 | Ugo Foscolo - 1823 - 348 pages
...voler portate. " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along. GARY'S Transl. This translator frequently contravenes the position of his author, who, chiefly depending... | |
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1827 - 500 pages
...wind Sway'd them toward us, I thus fram'd my speech : " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained. As doves By fond...returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; * Jnfrrno, canto vv 2B. Vor,. I. 25 Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks,. They, through... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pages
...spirits! come and hold discourse With us, if by none else restraiu'd.' Hearkening to the call, they came as doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning borne, Cleave the air." One of the two then addresses Daute thus : — " O gracious creature and benign... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...come and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain 'd.' Hearkening to the call, they came — as doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air. One of the two then addresses Dante thus : — ' O gracious creature and benign ! who go'st Visiting,... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...guilty race of Adam from that strand — Each as a falcon answering to the call.' — (Wright.) » 'As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings, And...returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will alone.' — (Cary.) It is impossible not to be reminded at every step, in spite of the knowledge and... | |
 | 1850 - 626 pages
...to their most difficult task, of the truth which Dante has expressed with his ordinary positiveness. By fond desire invited, on wide wings, And firm, to...returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will alone.'—(Cary.) He is saying that he does not wish his Canzoni to be explained in Latin to those... | |
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As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; * Jnfrrno, canto vv 2B. 
