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" 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, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in... "
The Vision: Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri - Page 3
by Dante Alighieri - 1892 - 496 pages
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The Steps of Life: Further Essays on Happiness

Karl Hilty - 1907 - 288 pages
...world " and is in the same frame of mind in which Dante has his great poem begin with the words: " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray;" or in which St. Theresa says: " My soul was submerged in the dream of earthly things, but it has pleased...
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Fundamental Religious Principles in Browning's Poetry

Willis Duke Weatherford - 1907 - 166 pages
...years of his life to a poem that involved the whole sweep of the question of evil and its overcoming : I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.2 Milton's greatest song was Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree,...
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A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms ...

Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - 562 pages
...to the greatest possible extent, continue to be preserved in the country. In the ancient style. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct.* — Gary. No feeling of loyalty and veneration can enter the breast of a man who is base by nature....
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 20

1909 - 454 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise

Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 458 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 446 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. I N the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...forest, how robust and rough its growth, , Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there...
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Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)

Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pages
...with the Italian poet himself. Feb. 22, 1805. (Vol. i. pp. v-viii.) [Inferno \. 1-27] In the mid way of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismayRenews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good...
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The Vision of Dante Alighieri, Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise

Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 488 pages
...Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway 1 of this our mortal life, I found me 2 in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there...
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The Road: A Study of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Volume 1

John Kelman - 1911 - 276 pages
...dream.2 He was wide awake (in this, as in so much else, an exception and a protest), when — ' In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood," THE MAN is suddenly introduced — a typical figure, like Everyman in the old Morality Play. The rags...
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Youth and Opportunity: Being Chapters on the Factors of Success

Thomas Tapper - 1912 - 312 pages
...may be in the condition described by Dante in the opening lines of the "Divine Comedy." In the midst of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray. He is deeply involved in affairs, he is probably the victim of fear, certainly of care and uncertainty;...
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