 IN the midway * of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct ; and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in...  The Vision of Dante Alighieri - Page 1by Dante Alighieri - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 636 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. Be follows the Roman poet. IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember1 only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...Beatrice, into Paradise. The pocm opens as follows : — " In the midway of this our mortal life 1 found me in' a gloomy wood astray. Gone from the path...robust and rough its growth — Which to remember only my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yct, to discourse of what there good befel,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1850 - 656 pages
...Beatrice into Paradise. He fullows the Roman poet. IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found rne in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember1 only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there... | |
 | Clara Harrington (fict.name.) - 1852 - 962 pages
...let them rest until a new house was found for them such as he desired. CHAPTER III. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood...were no easy task, how savage wild, That forest, how monstrous, and how rough oi growth, Which to remember only, my dismay, Renews, in bitterness, not far... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1853 - 1522 pages
...that be shall then be conducted by Beatrice Into Paradise. lie follows the Roman pucL Is the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember* only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what .there good befell,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...be conducted by his love, Beatrice, into Paradise. The poem opens as follows : — " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood...robust and rough its growth — Which to remember only my dismay* Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befell,... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1896 - 678 pages
...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."* * Inferno, Cant. I, 3, Gary's Translation. If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...haunts of barbarous superstition O'ercome me thus ? I scorn them, yet they awe me. 415. In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood,...how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death ; Tet, to discourse of what there good befel,... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1864 - 266 pages
...poets, and transmitted by them to Dante, Chaucer, etc. Ey The Divine Comedy opens thus : ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood; savage, wild That forest, and robust and rough its growth.' (Cary's Translation.) And Chaucer, ' The... | |
 | Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 442 pages
...Robert of Anjou ; and of the papacy and Rome under Boniface VIII. and his successors. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. * * * * * How first I entered it I scarce... | |
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