Dante's Divine Comedy, Band 3Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854 |
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answered appear aspect beaming bear Beatris began behold blessed bliss bound bright CANTO cause Christ circle clear dear desire divine dost doth doubt earth entered eterne eyes face fair faith fall father fire flame flower follow glorious glory glow God's grace grew grow hast hath hear heard heart heaven hence hold holy hope lady leave less light living look mayst meet mind mortal moved Nature never nought perceived rays reach receive remain rest ring rose round sacred seemed seen sight smile soon soul sound speak speech sphere spirits star stayed sweet tell thee thence therein thine things thou thought true truth turned unto virtue voice waters weal whence wings wrought
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Seite 169 - Keeping beside her darlings' nest her seat, By night, when things are from the view removed, That sooner she the dear ones' looks may meet, And that by which she feeds them to purvey, Counting for them her anxious labor sweet, Forestalls the hours upon the unsheltered spray, And waits the sun with burning eagerness, Poring with fixed eye for the peep of day." Not long did the elder Alighieri survive this renewal of happiness. Yet our hopes follow him out of sight into the veiled...
Seite 238 - And from the seats, in midway rank, that knit These double files, and downwards, thou wilt find That none do for their own deserving sit, But for another's under terms assigned ; For every one of these hath been set free Ere truly self-determined was the mind. This by the childish features wilt thou see, If well thou scan them, and if well thou list Wilt hear it by the childlike symphony.
Seite 20 - Which in these orbs impossible must be, If all to live in Charity are bound, And if its Nature thou dost rightly see. For 'tis of that blest thing the very ground, That in the will of God we govern ours, so Which from the twain doth one sole will compound.
Seite 239 - Dante is perplexed by the difference even in these innocent babes, but S. Bernard reminds him that there is difference in endowment, but that all are subject to the divine all-embracing law : — " And therefore these, who took such hasty flight, Into the true life not without a cause Are entered so, these more, and those less, bright...
Seite 204 - ... movement, and then, with a swift and melancholy survey of the changes in human life, cries bitterly: — " Faith, Art, and Innocence are found alone With little children; then they scatter fast Before the down across the cheek have grown. There is that lispeth, and doth learn to fast, Who afterward, with tongue untied from May To April, down his throat all meats will cast. There is that, lisping, loveth to obey His mother, and he '11 wish her in the tomb, When sentences unbroken he can say.
Seite 98 - ... himself cautions us against rash judgment, and elsewhere, by one multitudinous, harmonious utterance of unnumbered glorified souls combined into the semblance of an eagle, sets forth the impartiality of God's final, irreversible sentence (Paradise, 13-19) : " And let not folk in judging trust their wit Too fast, as one who counteth up the corn In "s field before the sun has ripened it ; For I have all through winter seen a thorn Appearing poisonless and obdurate...
Seite 98 - s field before the sun has ripened it ; For I have all through winter seen a thorn Appearing poisonless and obdurate, Whicn then the rose upon the sprig hath borne : And I have seen a ship, that swift and straight Has run upon the mid-sea all her race, And perished, entering at the harbor gate. . . . As the stork in circles flies Above that nest wherein she feeds her young. And as those fed attend her with their...
Seite 143 - was never scaled By mortal that had not believed in Christ, Before, or after, He on Cross was nailed. But look, there's many calleth Christ, O Christ, That shall, for meeting Him in judgment, want Much more than such a one as knew not Christ. The ^Ethiop shall judge, and cry, Avaunt Such Christians, when those congregations two Part, one for Wealth eterne, and one for Want.
Seite 126 - Tis up and down another's stairs to tread." Boccaccio in his " Life of Dante " traces back his hero's family to a certain Eliseo of the noble Roman house of Frangipani, who, toward the date of the rebuilding of Florence by the Emperor Charlemagne, settled in that city. In course of time the descendants of Eliseo, dropping their original cognomen...
Seite 2 - ... quotation (Paradise, canto i ), consisting of an invocation of the Spirit of Poetry, befits both Dante and his translator, while, as it were, striking one dominant note of our study: " O good Apollo, for this last emprise Render me such a vessel of thy might As to the longed-for laurel may suffice. Till now hath sped me one Parnassian height, But on my last arena now, beneath The double safeguard, I must needs alight. Do thou into my bosom come, and breathe, As when thou drewest Marsyas of old...