The Vision: Or, Hell, Purgatory, and ParadiseSmith, 1844 - 188 pages |
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... virtues . It is but justice to the wife of Dante not to omit what Boccaccio3 relates of her ; that after the banishment of her husband she secured some share of his property from the popular fury , under the name of her dowry ; that out ...
... virtues . It is but justice to the wife of Dante not to omit what Boccaccio3 relates of her ; that after the banishment of her husband she secured some share of his property from the popular fury , under the name of her dowry ; that out ...
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... virtue . Without the present bread , they would not be free from some shade of obscurity , so as to be prized by many less for their usefulness than for their beauty ; but the bread will , in the form of the present exposition , be that ...
... virtue . Without the present bread , they would not be free from some shade of obscurity , so as to be prized by many less for their usefulness than for their beauty ; but the bread will , in the form of the present exposition , be that ...
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... virtue only is true nobility . " Towards the conclusion , after having spoken of virtue itself , much as Pindar would have spoken of it , as being " the gift of God only ; " Che solo Iddio all ' anima la dona , he thus describes it as ...
... virtue only is true nobility . " Towards the conclusion , after having spoken of virtue itself , much as Pindar would have spoken of it , as being " the gift of God only ; " Che solo Iddio all ' anima la dona , he thus describes it as ...
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... virtue ; and his land shall be The land ' twixt either Feltro1 . In his might 1 My master thou , and guide . ] Tu se ' lo mio maestro , e'l mio autore , Tu se ' solo colui . Thou art my father , thou my author , thou . 2 Still after ...
... virtue ; and his land shall be The land ' twixt either Feltro1 . In his might 1 My master thou , and guide . ] Tu se ' lo mio maestro , e'l mio autore , Tu se ' solo colui . Thou art my father , thou my author , thou . 2 Still after ...
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... virtue be in me Sufficient , ere to this high enterprise Thou trust me . Thou hast told that Silvius ' sire 4 , Yet clothed in corruptible flesh , among The immortal tribes had entrance , and was there Sensibly present . Yet if heaven's ...
... virtue be in me Sufficient , ere to this high enterprise Thou trust me . Thou hast told that Silvius ' sire 4 , Yet clothed in corruptible flesh , among The immortal tribes had entrance , and was there Sensibly present . Yet if heaven's ...
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angel answer'd appear'd Arezzo ARGUMENT aught beam Beatrice behold beneath blessed Boccaccio Cacciaguida Cæsar Canto Charles of Anjou Chaucer circle Convito Corso Donati cried Dante death descend Dittamondo Divina Commedia divine dost doth E'en earth edition Ediz Emperor eternal exclaim'd eyes Fazio degli Uberti fell fix'd flame Florence Florentine Frezzi grace Guido Guido Cavalcanti hath heard heaven Hell Hist holy king Landino light living Lombardi look mark'd mayst Milton mortal mountain ne'er o'er Ovid Paradise passage Petrarch poem Poet Pope Provençal Purg Purgatory Quadrir Ravenna replied round Saint says seem'd side sight smile song soul spake speak spirit stars Statius stood sweet tell thee thence thine things Thomas Aquinas thou hast thou shalt thought Tiraboschi truth turn'd twixt unto Vellutello Venturi viii Villani Virgil virtue visage voice Vulg whence wings words
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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.