 In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in...  The Harvard Classics - Page 51909Full view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 508 pages
...ritrovai per una selva oscura Che la diritta via era smarrita." DANTE—Inferno. st In tlie midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my "Working Life" the recital of some of its passages in my vocation... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 516 pages
...ritrovai per una selva oscura • Che la diritta via era smarrita. " DANTE — Inferno. " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my "Working Life " the recital of some of its passages in my... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...Dante's stern, sublime, deeply meditative epic, opens with words which we thus turn : " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray — Gone from the path direct." in the Spenserian stanza — we select the parting words to the island nymph Calypso, of Odysseus :... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 pages
...•taken for the model of that in which he found himself astray — -and e'en to tell It were no lazy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth." There the only sounds which break on the ear are the tap tap of the woodpeckers, the drum of the grouse... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1877 - 644 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway l of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember2 only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1879 - 306 pages
...same hint, found his obscure wood and wanderings midway along the road of life : — " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray.'* The darkest periods of the Church's history were those we call the Middle Ages. By this, however, it... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1880 - 638 pages
...sumptuously performed at Ravenna by Guido, who himself died in the cusuing year. HELL. CANTO I. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Uenews, in bitterness not far from death. Fet to discourse of what... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1881 - 490 pages
...sumptuously performed at Ravenna by Guido, who himself died in the ensuing year. HELL. CANTO I. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1882 - 390 pages
...rapidly to the shores of helplessness and forgetfulness. I ask no better, for it is 1 " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." GARY'S Dante, Inferno, i. 2<5o MEMORIES. the lot which a merciful Providence provides ; but at least... | |
 | Mrs. H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 388 pages
...rapidly to the shores of helplessness and forgetfulness. I ask no better, for it is 1 " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." GARY'S Dante, Inferno, i. the lot which a merciful Providence provides ; but at least at this marked... | |
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