 Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any...  Song and Legend from the Middle Ages - Page 106by William Darnall MacClintock - 1893 - 129 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edgcumbe Staley - 1909 - 368 pages
...worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour with every power I have, as she knows right well. ... It is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not been written before of any woman." The " Vita Nuova " was finished in 1295, and then for twelve long... | |
 | 1911 - 844 pages
...her ; •' and to this end," he continues, " I labour all I can, as she in truth knoweth. Therefore if it be His pleasure, through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue for a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her that which hath not before been... | |
 | Herbert Baring Garrod - 1913 - 422 pages
...the Cross of Calvary. Dante has, in very truth, grandly redeemed his promise in the "Vita Nuova": " Wherefore if it be His pleasure, through whom is the...her what hath not before been written of any woman." Here I must say a little on the subject of Beatrice, as I promised in my first Lecture that I would... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1913 - 598 pages
...blessed one, until such time as I could discourse more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour all I can : as she well knoweth. Wherefore if it be...His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, 1 This we may believe to have been the Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, which furnished the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1914 - 528 pages
...blessed one, until such time as I could discourse more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour all I can ; as she well knoweth. Wherefore if it be...the life of all things, that my life continue with mo a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written... | |
 | National Dante Committee - 1921 - 72 pages
...which I saw things which made me promise to speak no more of this blessed one until, if it pleases God, I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman." (DG Rosetti.) In this statement we have the promise of which the Divine Comedy was to be the fulfillment.... | |
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 pages
...determined to write no further of her until such time as he can "discourse more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labor all I can : as she well...that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not yet before been written of any woman." Like the other men of his day Dante had a passion for knowledge.... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1922 - 236 pages
...more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour all I can, as she in truth knoweth. Therefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of...her what hath not before been written of any woman." Completed years later, the immortal Comedy exists to-day as the most wonderful tribute to a woman ever... | |
 | Edmund G. Gardner - 1923 - 278 pages
...concerning her. And to attain to that I labour all I can, even as she knoweth verily. Wherefore if it shall be His pleasure, through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue for some years, I hope that I shall yet utter concerning her what hath never been said of any woman.... | |
 | John Howard Whitehouse, Richard Warwick Bond, John Bryan Booth - 1904 - 364 pages
...blessed one, until such time as I could discourse more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour all I can, as she well knoweth. Wherefore if it be...that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not yet been written before of any woman. After the which may it seem good unto Him who is the Master of... | |
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