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 - Page 3by DANTE ALIGHIERI - 1892Full view - About this book
| 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
...Hell, and afterwards of Purgatory ; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway l of this...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...shore, its great trunks deepening into blackness till lost in the heavy gloom within. " E'en to toll, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth." Beyond this, a stretch of hardwood wreathes the water's edge with gold and crimson. While we admire... | |
| 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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