 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
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1896 - 230 pages
...your inferiors the earthly fiveshilling pieces. PROSE FANCIES — X A POET IN THE CITY ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray.' 1(AND when I say I, I must be understood to be speaking dramatically) only venture into the City once... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1896 - 228 pages
...Faerie Queene, which deserves to stand beside it, The Divine Comedy of Dante : — " In the mid way of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood apart." 2. By the den Bunyan doubtless meant to signify Bedford jail, where he was a prisoner at the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1897 - 526 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1897 - 522 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...the path direct : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task,Jiow savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...De Monarchia" (in Latin), and some small pieces.] SCENES FKOM THE "INFERNO." CANTO I. 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. Yet, to discourse of what there good befell,... | |
 | 1899 - 394 pages
...go for help? How does he describe his situation? In a way most pathetic and solemn. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." No flourish of trumpets, no burst of self-assertion, no splendour of imagination, yet we are opening... | |
 | 1899 - 434 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"* If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the realm of imagination, strive to picture to... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1900 - 570 pages
...greatest possible extent, continue to be preserved in the country. In the ancient style. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct.* — Gary. No feeling of loyalty and veneration can enter the breast of a man who is base by nature.... | |
 | Charles A. Church - 1900 - 428 pages
...SALE OF INDIAN "FLOATS." 29 a thoroughgoing man of affairs. With Dante he could say : "In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood." Mr. Kent was the director and provider of those who were to begin the work of transformation from the... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 474 pages
...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN 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 befel,... | |
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