...Faerie Queene, which deserves to stand beside it, The Divine Comedy of Dante : — " In the mid way of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood apart." 2. By the den Bunyan doubtless meant to signify Bedford jail, where he was a prisoner at the...

...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. 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...

...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...the path direct : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task,Jiow savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay...

...go for help? How does he describe his situation? In a way most pathetic and solemn. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." No flourish of trumpets, no burst of self-assertion, no splendour of imagination, yet we are opening...

...exaggeration be likened to Dante when he found himself wandering in the mazes of the gloomy wood: "Even to tell It were no easy task, how savage, wild That forest"* If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the realm of imagination, strive to picture to...

...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway 1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember 2 only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. 1 In the midway.] That the sera of 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....

...SALE OF INDIAN "FLOATS." 29 a thoroughgoing man of affairs. With Dante he could say : "In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood." Mr. Kent was the director and provider of those who were to begin the work of transformation from the...

...first endure, then pity, then embrace. 670. Selections from Gary's Dante's Inferno. i. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay II. Tet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. — Line 8....

...CCLXVI. MID-LIFE. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray." It was at the point of mid-life, that the poet found himself involved in the deepest obscurity, mental...