 Tant' e amara che poco e piu morte; ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai, diro de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte. [Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.  Dante - Page 53by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1879 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 490 pages
...joy, and leave him with a higher guide that will lead him up to Heaven. CANTO I. • IN the middle1 of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood ;2 for the straight way was lost. Ah ! how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1851 - 420 pages
...of joy, and leave him with a higher guide that will lead him up to Heaven. INFERNO. CANTO I CANTO I. IN the middle'' of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood ;2 for the straight way was lost. Ah ! how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 494 pages
...of joy, and leave him with a higher guide that will lead him up to Heaven. CANTO I. IN the middle1 of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood ;2 for the straight way was lost. Ah ! how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1885 - 390 pages
...then thirty-five. " In the middle of the journey of our life," so it begins, " I found myself astray in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah ! how hard a thing it is to tell how wild, and rough, and stubborn this wood was, which, in thinking of it, renews my fear, bitter almost... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1886 - 392 pages
...then thirty-five. " In the middle of the journey of our life," so it begins, "I found myself astray in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah ! how hard a thing it is to tell how wild, and rough, and stubborn this wood was, which, in thinking of it, renews my fear, bitter almost... | |
 | May Alden Ward - 1887 - 316 pages
...date is confirmed by the poet's own words at the beginning of the " Divine Comedy " : " Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood." The middle of our life journey, Dante tells us elsewhere, he understands to be thirtyfive years, or... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1891 - 514 pages
...of joy, and leave him with a higher guide that will lead him up to Heaven. CANTO I. IN the middle1 of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood;2 for the straight way was lost. Ah ! how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1897 - 278 pages
...descended into the shades. 'In the middle of the journey of our life,' says the great Italian poet, ' I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. How hard it is to say what a wild and rough and stubborn wood it was ! So bitter is the thought thereof... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1901 - 474 pages
...The words of Dante, as every reader of the " Divine Comedy " remembers, are literally : " Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the right way was perplexed." In Mr. Boyd's numbers this is transformed as follows : " When life... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1902 - 948 pages
...missed." The following is the revised version, with the changes made noticeable by italics : " Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost." Far the most important of the above alterations is the change oifor... | |
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