The Vision : Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1J. Taylor, 1831 |
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... King Arthur , by which Dante had been delighted , appeared to Landino no better than a fabulous and inelegant book . He is , besides , sometimes , unnecessarily prolix ; at others , silent , where a real difficulty asks for solution ...
... King Arthur , by which Dante had been delighted , appeared to Landino no better than a fabulous and inelegant book . He is , besides , sometimes , unnecessarily prolix ; at others , silent , where a real difficulty asks for solution ...
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... King , Who reigns above , a rebel to his law Adjudges me ; and therefore hath decreed That , to his city , none through me should come . He in all parts hath sway ; there rules , there holds His citadel and throne . O happy those , Whom ...
... King , Who reigns above , a rebel to his law Adjudges me ; and therefore hath decreed That , to his city , none through me should come . He in all parts hath sway ; there rules , there holds His citadel and throne . O happy those , Whom ...
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... king , Israel with his sire and with his sons , Nor without Rachel whom so hard he won , And others many more , whom he to bliss Exalted . Before these , be thou assur'd , No spirit of human kind was ever sav'd . " We , while he spake ...
... king , Israel with his sire and with his sons , Nor without Rachel whom so hard he won , And others many more , whom he to bliss Exalted . Before these , be thou assur'd , No spirit of human kind was ever sav'd . " We , while he spake ...
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... king Latinus seated by his child Lavinia , and that Brutus I beheld Who Tarquin chas'd , Lucretia , Cato's wife Marcia , with Julia and Cornelia there ; And sole apart retir'd , the Soldan fierce . ° Then when a little more I rais'd my ...
... king Latinus seated by his child Lavinia , and that Brutus I beheld Who Tarquin chas'd , Lucretia , Cato's wife Marcia , with Julia and Cornelia there ; And sole apart retir'd , the Soldan fierce . ° Then when a little more I rais'd my ...
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... King of all , we own'd , Our pray❜r to him should for thy peace arise , Since thou hast pity on our evil plight . Of whatsoe'er to hear or to discourse It pleases thee , that will we hear , of that Freely with thee discourse , while e ...
... King of all , we own'd , Our pray❜r to him should for thy peace arise , Since thou hast pity on our evil plight . Of whatsoe'er to hear or to discourse It pleases thee , that will we hear , of that Freely with thee discourse , while e ...
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Æneid Alberici Visio alluded answer'd Arezzo Argument arms beheld beneath Boccaccio Bologna breast Brunetto called Canto chang'd Chaucer Cino da Pistoia circle Convito cried Dante death descend Divina Commedia dost doth e'en earth edition evil exclaim'd eyes Farinata degli Uberti fear feet fell flame Florence Florentine Frezzi friar Ghibelline Gubbio Guido Guido Cavalcanti Guido da Montefeltro hast hath heard Hell Hist honour Ital land Landino Latin Lombardi look'd Malebolge mark'd master mayst Milton mov'd ne'er noble o'er onward Ovid Paradise pass pass'd passage Pelli Petrarch Phlegyas Pistoia poem Poet Pope punishment Purgatory Quadrir rais'd Ravenna reach'd replied rock round says seem'd shade Shakspeare shalt side sinners sonnet soon soul spake speak spirit stood stretch'd tell thee Tiraboschi tongue torment translation turn'd Uberti Vellutello Venturi viii Villani Virgil Vita whence Wherefore words
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Page 171 - These weeds of miserable flesh we wear; And do thou strip them off from us again.' Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That day and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth ! Why open'dst not upon us ? When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet...
Page 13 - Fame of them the world hath none, Nor suffers; mercy and justice scorn them both; Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by.
Page 208 - 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 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 23 - Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learnt, Entangled him by that fair form, from me Ta'en in such cruel sort, as grieves me still : Love that denial takes from none beloved, Caught me with pleasing him so passing well, That, as thou seest, he yet deserts me not. Love brought us to one death : Caina waits The soul, who spilt our life.
Page 214 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 155 - attentively regard Adamo's woe. When living, full supply Ne'er lack'd me of what most I coveted; One drop of water now, alas! I crave. The rills, that glitter down the grassy slopes Of Casentino, making fresh and soft The banks whereby they glide to Arno's stream, Stand ever in my view...
Page 256 - There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. This is old age...
Page 63 - We enter'd on a forest, where no track Of steps had worn a way. Not verdant there The foliage, but of dusky hue; not light The boughs and tapering, but with knares deform'd And matted thick: fruits there were none, but thorns Instead, with venom fill'd.
Page 26 - As florets, by the frosty air of night Bent down and closed, when day has blanch'd their leaves, Rise all unfolded on their spiry stems; So was my fainting vigour new...