The Vision: Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante AlighieriF. Warne, 1892 - 496 pages |
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Page vi
... less imperfect , I have consulted most of the writers by whom my Author has been recently illustrated . Wherever an omission or an error in the translation has been pointed out to me , I have done my best to supply the one and to ...
... less imperfect , I have consulted most of the writers by whom my Author has been recently illustrated . Wherever an omission or an error in the translation has been pointed out to me , I have done my best to supply the one and to ...
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... less distinctly marked . It would seem as if those verses in the Paradise , where the shade of his ancestor declares to him , Lo primo tuo rifugio e'l primo ostello Sarà la cortesia del gran Lombardo , First refuge thou must find ...
... less distinctly marked . It would seem as if those verses in the Paradise , where the shade of his ancestor declares to him , Lo primo tuo rifugio e'l primo ostello Sarà la cortesia del gran Lombardo , First refuge thou must find ...
Page xix
... less value , as well already performed , as those which yet remained for me to attempt . " It is no wonder that , with feelings like these , he was now willing to obtain by humiliation and entreaty , what he had before been unable to ...
... less value , as well already performed , as those which yet remained for me to attempt . " It is no wonder that , with feelings like these , he was now willing to obtain by humiliation and entreaty , what he had before been unable to ...
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... less favourable sentence ( see his Proposta , vol . iii . pte ii . p . ccx . 8vo , 1824 ) . He is probably the Lapo mentioned in the sonnet to Guido Cavalcanti , beginning , Guido vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io , which Mr. Hayley has so ...
... less favourable sentence ( see his Proposta , vol . iii . pte ii . p . ccx . 8vo , 1824 ) . He is probably the Lapo mentioned in the sonnet to Guido Cavalcanti , beginning , Guido vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io , which Mr. Hayley has so ...
Page xxx
... less for their usefulness than for their beauty ; but the bread will , in the form of the present exposition , be that light , 1 Perticari ( Degli Scrittori del trecento , lib . 2. cap . v . ) speaking of the Convito , observes that ...
... less for their usefulness than for their beauty ; but the bread will , in the form of the present exposition , be that light , 1 Perticari ( Degli Scrittori del trecento , lib . 2. cap . v . ) speaking of the Convito , observes that ...
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Page 211 - Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Page 440 - I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrines and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Page 233 - And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended...
Page 3 - 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 bitterness not far from death.
Page 46 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.
Page 257 - And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus : worship God : for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Page 318 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 467 - There is in Heaven a light, whose goodly shine Makes the Creator visible to all Created, that in seeing Him alone Have peace ; and in a circle spreads so far, That the circumference were too loose a zone To girdle in the sun.
Page 470 - But marvel too? Twixt gladness and amaze, In sooth no will had I to utter aught, Or hear. And, as a pilgrim, when he rests Within the temple of his vow, looks round In breathless awe...
Page 340 - And if her nature well thou contemplate. Rather it is inherent in this state Of blessedness, to keep ourselves within The Divine Will, by which our wills with His Are one. So that as we, from step to step, Are placed throughout this kingdom, pleases all, Even as our King, who in us plants His will; And in His will is our tranquillity: It is the mighty ocean, whither tends Whatever it creates and Nature makes.