The Vision: Or, Hell, Purgatory, and ParadiseSmith, 1844 - 188 pages |
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... body of infantry . This circum- stance in the event proved highly fortunate to the Florentines ; for their own cavalry being thus joined to their foot , while that of their enemies was led by the pursuit to a considerable distance from ...
... body of infantry . This circum- stance in the event proved highly fortunate to the Florentines ; for their own cavalry being thus joined to their foot , while that of their enemies was led by the pursuit to a considerable distance from ...
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... of the principal parts of the poem , is here attributed to Messer Busone d'Agobbio . It is also inserted in Nos . 3459 and 3460 of the same MSS .; ingly repaired in a numerous body , made the Count ( 8 ) LIFE OF DANTE .
... of the principal parts of the poem , is here attributed to Messer Busone d'Agobbio . It is also inserted in Nos . 3459 and 3460 of the same MSS .; ingly repaired in a numerous body , made the Count ( 8 ) LIFE OF DANTE .
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... body , made the Count Alessandro da Romena their leader , and appointed a council of twelve , of which number Dante was one . In the year 1304 , having been joined by a very strong force , which was not only furnish- ed them by Arezzo ...
... body , made the Count Alessandro da Romena their leader , and appointed a council of twelve , of which number Dante was one . In the year 1304 , having been joined by a very strong force , which was not only furnish- ed them by Arezzo ...
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... to rank among the few minds , to whom the power of a great creative faculty can be ascribed . 1 Leonardo Aretino , Vita di Dante . description of the heavens and heavenly bodies ; a description LIFE OF DANTE . ( 29 )
... to rank among the few minds , to whom the power of a great creative faculty can be ascribed . 1 Leonardo Aretino , Vita di Dante . description of the heavens and heavenly bodies ; a description LIFE OF DANTE . ( 29 )
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... bodies ; a description of men , their deserts and punishments , of supreme happiness and utter misery , and of the middle state between the two extremes : nor , per- haps , was there ever any one who chose a more ample and fertile ...
... bodies ; a description of men , their deserts and punishments , of supreme happiness and utter misery , and of the middle state between the two extremes : nor , per- haps , was there ever any one who chose a more ample and fertile ...
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Page 113 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Page 57 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 316 - 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 264 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Page 46 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 99 - 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 322 - Enters Alagna; in his Vicar Christ Himself a captive, and his mockery Acted again. Lo! to his holy lip The vinegar and gall once more applied ; And he 'twixt living robbers doom'd to bleed. Lo ! the new Pilate, of whose cruelty Such violence cannot fill the measure up, With no decree to sanction, pushes on Into the temple
Page 267 - So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
Page 127 - Colours variegated more Nor Turks nor Tartars e'er on cloth of state With interchangeable embroidery wove, Nor spread Arachne o'er her curious loom. As oft-times a light skiff moor'd to the shore, Stands part in water, part upon the land ; Or, as where dwells the greedy German boor, The beaver settles, watching for his prey ; So on the rim, that fenced the sand with rock, Sat perch'd the fiend of evil. In the void Glancing, his tail upturn'd, its venomous fork With sting like scorpion's arm'd.
Page 211 - The realm of sorrow, at mid breast from the ice Stood forth; and I in stature am more like A giant, than the giants are his arms. Mark now how great that whole must be, which suits With such a part. If he were beautiful As he is hideous now, and yet did dare To scowl upon his Maker, well from him May all our misery flow.