The Divine Comedy, Volume 10Crowell, 1897 - 476 pages |
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Page xxii
... Italian cities , were undoubtedly as familiar to Dante as the puppet shows of the Faust legend , long after , were to the boy Goethe , to whom they gave the first suggestions of that drama which was to sum up all the develop- ment of ...
... Italian cities , were undoubtedly as familiar to Dante as the puppet shows of the Faust legend , long after , were to the boy Goethe , to whom they gave the first suggestions of that drama which was to sum up all the develop- ment of ...
Page xxiii
... Italy is full of war , murder , and rapine ; city is arrayed against city , family against family ; and pity , patriotism , and religion seem lost forever in the " endless dark " of civil strife . To change this state of things Dante ...
... Italy is full of war , murder , and rapine ; city is arrayed against city , family against family ; and pity , patriotism , and religion seem lost forever in the " endless dark " of civil strife . To change this state of things Dante ...
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... Italian rhyme rather than Latin metre ; he thought Italian rhyme ought to be confined to love - poems : therefore what- ever he wrote ( at this age ) had to take the form of a love - poem . Thus any poem by Dante not concerning love is ...
... Italian rhyme rather than Latin metre ; he thought Italian rhyme ought to be confined to love - poems : therefore what- ever he wrote ( at this age ) had to take the form of a love - poem . Thus any poem by Dante not concerning love is ...
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... Italy her 1 " How doth the city sit solitary , that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow , she that was great among the nations ! " . Lamentations of Jeremiah , i . 1 . 2 See paragraph I. - 3 This passage explains the words ...
... Italy her 1 " How doth the city sit solitary , that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow , she that was great among the nations ! " . Lamentations of Jeremiah , i . 1 . 2 See paragraph I. - 3 This passage explains the words ...
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... Italian poets have repeated this verse . 105. Caïna is the place where fratricides , or traitors against their kindred , are punished . Cary's note here is inaccurate . See Hell , xxxii . 113. Francesca , daughter of Guido da Polenta ...
... Italian poets have repeated this verse . 105. Caïna is the place where fratricides , or traitors against their kindred , are punished . Cary's note here is inaccurate . See Hell , xxxii . 113. Francesca , daughter of Guido da Polenta ...
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Page xvii - Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Leads't thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
Page 5 - O vos omnes qui transitis per viam, attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus," and to pray them to stay and hear me.
Page 371 - Let both grow together until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Page xxv - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Page 43 - I labor all I can, as she well knoweth. Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Page 27 - I FELT a spirit of love begin to stir Within my heart, long time unfelt till then ; And saw Love coming towards me, fair and fain (That I scarce knew him for his joyful cheer), Saying,
Page 462 - Here vigor failed the towering fantasy : But yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion, by the love impelled, That moves the sun in heaven and all the stars.
Page 451 - Twixt gladness and, amaze, In sooth no will had I to utter aught, Or hear. And, as a pilgrim, when he rests Within the temple of his vow, looks round In breathless awe, and hopes some time to tell Of all its goodly state ; e'en so mine eyes Coursed up and down along the living light, Now low, and now aloft, and now around, Visiting every step. Looks I beheld, Where charity in soft persuasion sat ; Smiles from within, and radiance from above; And, in each gesture, grace and honour high.
Page 55 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 458 - Here thou to us, of charity and love, Art, as the noon-day torch ; and art, beneath, To mortal men, of hope a living spring. So mighty art thou, lady, and so great...