...science and every phase of external nature. He is particularly fond of the sea and of birds : — • As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...Cleave the air, wafted by their will along, Thus issued those dames and knights of ancient days. There is another very beautiful bird simile, of which many...

...framed my speech : "O wearied spirits ! Come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, 15 Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They,...

...the supreme poet of material and tangible things which illustrate by comparison the things imagined: As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding. (Carey's translation of Dante's Inferno, Canto V.) And as a man with difficult short breath Forespent...

...the supreme poet of material and tangible things which illustrate by comparison the things imagined: As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm to their sweet nest returning home, Cloavo the air, wafted by their will along; Thus issued from that troop where Dido ranks, Tlu\y, through...

...which the tragedy of Francesca da Rimini and her lover, Paolo, is recited. He beholds the unhappy pair: As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along. The poet's eye was, indeed, exceptionally keen for the life and movement of birds. He sees the rooks...

...speech: 'O wearied spirits, come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained.' As doves 80 By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...affection urged. 'O gracious creature and benign, who goest Visiting, through this element obscure, Us, who the world with bloody stain imbrued; If for a...

...Entreat ; and they will come." Soon as the wind Swayed them toward us, I thus framed my speech : " 0 wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us,...force My cry prevailed by strong affection urged. " 0 gracious creature and benign ! who goest Visiting, through this element obscure, Us, who the world...

...fram'd my speech : " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issu'd from that troop, where Dido ranks, They through the ill air speeding ; with such force My cry...