The Divine Comedy, Volume 10Crowell, 1897 - 476 pages |
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Page xiii
... soul will be the evil and foolish companions whom thou shalt fall in with in this valley of exile . " During these three years he is said to have written a letter to his fellow - citizens , full of pathetic plead- ing and beginning with ...
... soul will be the evil and foolish companions whom thou shalt fall in with in this valley of exile . " During these three years he is said to have written a letter to his fellow - citizens , full of pathetic plead- ing and beginning with ...
Page xiv
... soul from the spirit world , threading the crowded streets of some great city . Legend has been busy with the poet's life and has woven many a beautiful story of these days of exile . It is said that at the close of a long summer's day ...
... soul from the spirit world , threading the crowded streets of some great city . Legend has been busy with the poet's life and has woven many a beautiful story of these days of exile . It is said that at the close of a long summer's day ...
Page xxii
... soul . As the year 1000 drew near , the whole Chris- tian world was expectant of the millennium foretold by St. John ... souls can still be seen in the literature and customs of the times . Human imagination , stirred by the vision of ...
... soul . As the year 1000 drew near , the whole Chris- tian world was expectant of the millennium foretold by St. John ... souls can still be seen in the literature and customs of the times . Human imagination , stirred by the vision of ...
Page xxv
... soul desires its own torment , which renders it capable of coming at last to peace and joy in the Lord . As hate is the prevailing note in Hell , in Purgatory love softens suffering and soothes pain . Not with blasphemies do the souls ...
... soul desires its own torment , which renders it capable of coming at last to peace and joy in the Lord . As hate is the prevailing note in Hell , in Purgatory love softens suffering and soothes pain . Not with blasphemies do the souls ...
Page xxvi
... souls of those who were neither God's enemies nor his friends , they reach the river Acheron , over which the poet is carried in a swoon . Hell proper begins with the second circle , and here dwell in a stately castle the souls of the ...
... souls of those who were neither God's enemies nor his friends , they reach the river Acheron , over which the poet is carried in a swoon . Hell proper begins with the second circle , and here dwell in a stately castle the souls of the ...
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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...