Works, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 5
Page
PAGE Mr . Cary ' s translation of the Inferno of Dante is published .
Correspondence with Miss Seward about his version of Dante . — Literary
Journal for 1806 . — Death of his youngest daughter . His consequent illness . —
Letter to Mr . Birch ...
PAGE Mr . Cary ' s translation of the Inferno of Dante is published .
Correspondence with Miss Seward about his version of Dante . — Literary
Journal for 1806 . — Death of his youngest daughter . His consequent illness . —
Letter to Mr . Birch ...
Page
PAGE Mr . Cary ' s translation of the Inferno of Dante is published . - -
Correspondence with Miss Seward about his version of Dante . - Literary Journal
for 1806 . — Death of his youngest daughter . — His consequent illness . —
Letter to Mr ...
PAGE Mr . Cary ' s translation of the Inferno of Dante is published . - -
Correspondence with Miss Seward about his version of Dante . - Literary Journal
for 1806 . — Death of his youngest daughter . — His consequent illness . —
Letter to Mr ...
Page
PAGE Mr . Cary ' s translation of the Inferno of Dante is published . —
Correspondence with Miss Seward about his version of Dante . — Literary
Journal for 1806 . — Death of his youngest daughter . — His consequent illness .
— Letter to Mr ...
PAGE Mr . Cary ' s translation of the Inferno of Dante is published . —
Correspondence with Miss Seward about his version of Dante . — Literary
Journal for 1806 . — Death of his youngest daughter . — His consequent illness .
— Letter to Mr ...
Page 104
Proceeded in translating Dante , Purgatorio , canto ü . Continued Anacharsis to p
. 221 , with Jane . 24 . Proceeded in Dante , Purgatorio , canto i . Continued and
finished De Lille ' s Jardins , and read Mason ' s English Garden , with Jane .
Proceeded in translating Dante , Purgatorio , canto ü . Continued Anacharsis to p
. 221 , with Jane . 24 . Proceeded in Dante , Purgatorio , canto i . Continued and
finished De Lille ' s Jardins , and read Mason ' s English Garden , with Jane .
Page 277
Version of Dante completed and published . - Letters to Mr . and Mrs . Price . -
Literary Journal for 1813 . — Letter to Mr . Price . His Dante little noticed . His
means ; education of his children .Translation from Pignotti of the Friar - Ass . —
Takes ...
Version of Dante completed and published . - Letters to Mr . and Mrs . Price . -
Literary Journal for 1813 . — Letter to Mr . Price . His Dante little noticed . His
means ; education of his children .Translation from Pignotti of the Friar - Ass . —
Takes ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Common terms and phrases
admirable affection affectionate answer appears beautiful Began beginning believe Birch called canto CHAPTER character Clarendon College Concluded contains course critic Dante DEAR death delight edition expected faithful father Finished former GEORGINA give Greek H. F. CARY happy hear History hope interest Italian Italy Jane Journal June language lately Latin less letter literary look manner means meet mention Milton mind Miss Seward month morning Muse nature never night original pass passage perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical present Price probably published Read remain remarkable respect rest seems Sermons sister sonnet soon spirits suppose tell thing third thou thought tion Tiraboschi translation verse volume week whole wife wish write written wrote
Popular passages
Page 79 - Si le rétablissement des sciences et des arts a contribué à épurer les mœurs 1 Avertissement
Page 215 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 260 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 211 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 289 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 291 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.
Page 288 - Necesse est ut eam, tion ut vivam : but it may be truly affirmed that there was never any philosophy, religion, or other discipline, which did so plainly and highly exalt the good which is communicative...
Page 233 - By that its.ill-deservings are to be measured, — not by the narrowness of the limits, either of time or place, within which the good providence of God hath confined its power of doing mischief. If, on any ground, it were safe to indulge a hope that the suffering of the wicked may have an end, it would be upon the principle adopted by the great Origen, and by other eminent examples of learning and piety which our own times have seen,— that the actual endurance of punishment in the next life will...
Page 12 - I much wonder that you should listen to the idea, that a fondness for Italian poetry is the corruption of our taste, when you cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province of poetry, imagination, has been more or less cultivated among us, according to the degree of estimation in which they have been held...
Page 210 - IN the midway1 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. Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Works, Volume 1 Works, Henry Francis Cary |
| Editor | Henry Francis Cary |
| Publisher | H. G. Bohn, 1847 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2006 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |