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... poets have affirmed , Were from the seed of ants restored again , ) Than was it to behold through that dark valley The spirits languishing in divers heaps . This on the belly , that upon the back One of the other lay , and others ...
... poets have affirmed , Were from the seed of ants restored again , ) Than was it to behold through that dark valley The spirits languishing in divers heaps . This on the belly , that upon the back One of the other lay , and others ...
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... poem in the sense in which the Faerie Queene is ; and yet it is full of allegorical symbols and figurative meanings . In a letter to Can Grande della Scala , Dante writes : " It is to be remarked , that the sense of this work is not ...
... poem in the sense in which the Faerie Queene is ; and yet it is full of allegorical symbols and figurative meanings . In a letter to Can Grande della Scala , Dante writes : " It is to be remarked , that the sense of this work is not ...
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... poem begins on Good Friday of the year 1300 , at which reached the middle of the Scriptural time Dante , who was born in 1265 , had threescore years and ten . It ends on the first Sunday after Easter , making in all ten days . 2. The ...
... poem begins on Good Friday of the year 1300 , at which reached the middle of the Scriptural time Dante , who was born in 1265 , had threescore years and ten . It ends on the first Sunday after Easter , making in all ten days . 2. The ...
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... poets and sages of antiquity live ; and another , a great fortified city with walls of iron , red - hot , and a deep fosse round it , and full of grave citizens , ' - the city of Dis . 6 " Now , whether this be in what we moderns call ...
... poets and sages of antiquity live ; and another , a great fortified city with walls of iron , red - hot , and a deep fosse round it , and full of grave citizens , ' - the city of Dis . 6 " Now , whether this be in what we moderns call ...
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... poetic admiration . Assuredly there was no magnanimity contemptuous of the Papal greatness in the abdication of ... poets write of , Unto the kingdom of perpetual night . " 87. Shakespeare , Measure for Mea- sure , III . , 1 : - " This ...
... poetic admiration . Assuredly there was no magnanimity contemptuous of the Papal greatness in the abdication of ... poets write of , Unto the kingdom of perpetual night . " 87. Shakespeare , Measure for Mea- sure , III . , 1 : - " This ...
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