 As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding : with such force My cry prevail'd,...  The vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary - Page 11by Dante Alighieri - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain 'd.' Hearkening to the call, they came — as doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air. One of the two then addresses Dante thus : — ' O gracious creature and benign ! who go'st Visiting,... | |
 | 1850 - 556 pages
...race of Adam from that strand — Each as a falcon answering to the call.' — (Wright.) * ' As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings, And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will alone.' — (Cary.) It is impossible not to be reminded at every step, in spite of the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...have so much joy and peace about them, it were a sin to wish their life beyond that minute. " As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...their sweet nest returning home Cleave the air, wafted by their will along, So do they pass away." The sweet death of Brother Bernard, the Franciscan, was... | |
 | 1854 - 630 pages
...her eyes, as, thus embracing, the figures are borne onwards through the gloom of Hades. " As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido* ranks, They through the ill air speeding."... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...her eyes, as, thus embracing, the figures »re borne onwards through the gloom of Hades. "As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet uest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd.' Hearkening to the call, they come — as doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet uest returning home, Cleave tlie air. Oue of tho two then addresses Daute thus : — ' 0 gracious creature... | |
 | Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 430 pages
...speech : " O wearied spirits ! come and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding... | |
 | 1867 - 864 pages
...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...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding:... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...speech : ' О wearied spirits ! come and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained.' As doves, Wye ! — thou wanderer through the woods — How...has my spirit turned to thee I And now, with glea by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...speech: ' O wearied spirits ! come and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained.' As doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding,... | |
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