Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and GoetheHarvard university, 1910 - 215 pages |
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actually Alfred de Musset allegory Anaxagoras ancient angel Aristotle atoms Beatrice beauty Christian classicism conceived Dante Dante's death Democritus destiny devil Divine Comedy Doctor Faustus dreams earth Earth-Spirit emotion Epicurean Epicurus everything evil existence experience express eyes fancy fear feel folly form of eternity genius Goethe Goethe's Faust Greek Gretchen happiness heart heaven Helen hell hope human ideal illusion imagination immortality infinite insight inspired interest landscape less living losopher lover Lucretius magic mankind material Mephistopheles merely mind moral mystical nature Neoplatonic never pagan Paradiso passion pathetic fallacy perfect philo philosophy Piccarda Plato play pleasures poem poet poet's poetic poetry political possible purgatory reason religion render romantic romanticism salvation scene sense sentiment sort soul spheres Spinoza spirit sublime substance symbol theology theory things thought tion tius topheles true truth ture universe Venus virtue vision whole wisdom words Wordsworth
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Page 88 - Ond' ella toglie ancora e terza e nona, Si stava in pace, sobria e pudica. Non avea catenella, non corona, Non donne contigiate, non cintura Che fosse a veder più che la persona. Non faceva, nascendo, ancor paura La figlia al padre, chè il tempo e la dote Non fuggian quinci e quindi la misura. Non avea case di famiglia vote; Non v' era giunto ancor Sardanapalo A.
Page 148 - O Faustus ! lay that damned book aside, And gaze not on it lest it tempt thy soul, And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head. Read, read the Scriptures : that is blasphemy.
Page 112 - Matto è chi spera che nostra ragione Possa trascorrer la infinita via, Che tiene una sustanzia in tre persone. State contenti, umana gente, al quia; Chè, se potuto aveste veder tutto, Mestier non era partorir Maria: E disiar vedeste senza frutto Tai, che sarebbe lor disio quetato, Ch' eternalmente è dato lor per lutto.
Page 171 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 10 - Nunc age quod superest cognosce et clarius audi. nee me animi fallit quam sint obscura; sed acri percussit thyrso laudis spes magna meum cor et simul incussit suavem mi in pectus amorem musarum...
Page 163 - Ich bin ein Teil des Teils, der anfangs alles war, Ein Teil der Finsternis, die sich das Licht gebar, Das stolze Licht, das nun der Mutter Nacht Den alten Rang, den Raum ihr streitig macht.
Page 105 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Page 40 - Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis...
Page 127 - S' appresenti alla turba trionfante, Che lieta vien per questo etera tondo. Col viso ritornai per tutte quante Le sette spere, e vidi questo globo Tal, ch...
Page 73 - ... both. And I rejoiced to think that I had found in Anaxagoras a teacher of the causes of existence such as I desired, and I imagined that he would tell me first whether the earth is flat or round...