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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, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in... "
The Divine Comedy - Page 5
by Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 429 pages
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 13

1883 - 654 pages
...uurealties, seeks to get into the presence of this master, straightway finds himself, like Dante, " In a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct; and e'en to tell, It were no.'eaiy task, how savage wild Tnat forest, how robust and rough its growth." Besides Pestalozzi's...
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Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1886 - 374 pages
...as he himself confesses in the opening of the " Inferno," he is ..." Midway of this our mortal life, in a gloomy wood astray, Gone from the path direct...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth." This is the very Beatrice of Dante, — celestial wisdom embodied in Nature's masterpiece. I remember...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 902 pages
...road ; and that this road * " Kritik dcr reinen Vernunft." Edit. Hartenstcin, p. 268. t [In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood astray.] | [Gone from the path direct.] led nowhere else but into the dark depths of a wild and tangled forest. And though I have found leopards...
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The Vision, Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - 1889 - 454 pages
...sumptuously performed at Ravenna *7 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, astray Gone from the patli direct : and e'en to toll It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 916 pages
...road ; and that this road * " Kritik der rrinen Vernunft." Edit. Hartcnstcin, p. 256. f [In the midway of this our mortal life I found me In a gloomy wood astray.] J [Gone from the path direct.] led nowhere else but into the dark depths of a wild and tangled forest....
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 922 pages
...road ; and that this road * " Kritik dor reinen Vernunft." Edit. Hartenstcin, p. 256. t [In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood ustraj.] $ [Gone from the path direct.] led nowhere else but into the dark depths of a wild and tangled...
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Grammar of the English Sentence, and Introduction to Composition

Jonathan Rigdon - 1890 - 302 pages
...uniformly of—noole» citizeni t and — SELECTIONS FROM CART'S DANTE'S INFEENO. I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. — Line 1, canto I. II. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd...
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A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations, Ancient and Modern: With ...

1890 - 270 pages
...could not be reached by a single plunge. The integrity of his moral nature must have 1 In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. previously undergone that gradual process of decomposition which could result only from long and sympathetic...
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Life of Gustave Doré: With One Hundred and Thirty-eight Illus. from Original ...

Blanchard Jerrold - 1891 - 520 pages
...It is not more fully treated than other, and these the purest and grandest, passages of the Inferno. That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which...remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far off from death. * This rough and robust forest, with its cavernous depths of shadow, and tangled undergrowth...
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Life of Gustave Doré: With One Hundred and Thirty-eight Illus. from Original ...

Blanchard Jerrold - 1891 - 504 pages
...It is not more fully treated than other, and these the purest and grandest, passages of the Inferno. That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which...remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far off from death. * This rough and robust forest, with its cavernous depths of shadow, and tangled undergrowth...
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