...ill pass have reached!" Then turning, I to them my speech addressed, And thus began : " Francesca ! your sad fate Even to tears my grief and pity moves....days Of joy, when misery is at hand. That kens Thy learned instructor. Yet so eagerly If thou art bent to know the primal root, From whence our love gat...

...reached!" Then turning, I to them my speech addressed, And thus began : " Francesca ! your sad fate F,ven to tears my grief and pity moves. But tell me ; in...days Of joy, when misery is at hand. That kens Thy learned instructor. Yet so eagerly ll'thou art bent to know the primal root, I'Vum whence our love...

...happiness makes misery woful." " Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance." R. BLAIR. " No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand." CAREY'S DANTE. " This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier...

...love : 1st canto — " .... nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." " No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand." 2nd canto—" . . conosceste i dubbiosi desiri ? " " ye knew Your yet uncertain wishes ? " Muferno'...

...measure." — Love's Labour's, IV, iii, 384. — ED.] no, in. what thou wast . . . what thou art] Compare: 'No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.' — Dante, Inferno, canto v, 11 118, 119, Gary's translation, where there is the following note: 'Imitated...

...XI, st. 83. The last two probably borrowed from Dante, the language being almost identical with — " No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand." — //<•//, cv 118 (Gary's trans.) Finally, going still further back, we find in Boethius the following...

...love : 1st canto — " .... nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." " No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand." 2nd canto — " . . conosceste i dubbiosi desiri ? " " ye knew Your yet uncertain wishes ? " •Inferno'...

...hopeless converse, and hear amid the wailing of the never-lulling tempest her piteoussounding words:— " No greater grief Than to remember days of joy— When misery is mine c ." or, as one in our own day has rendered the passage :— "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is—remembering...

...all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out." 1 (Luke xiii. 26-28.) There is No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand.» And such grief shall often come to the finally unregenerate man, whenever the conscience, " God's secretary,"...

...ill pass have reached ! ' Then turning, I to them my speech addressed, And thus began : ' Francesca ! R. Chambers learned instructor. Yet so eagerly If thou art bent to know the primal root. From whence our love gat...