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 5by Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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