The Inferno of Dante AlighieriW.E. Painter, 1843 - 285 Seiten |
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Æneid ancient answered arms behold Biagioli blood Boniface bore breast Brunetto Latini CANTO Capaneus caught cause Centaurs Charles of Anjou Charon cheek Ciacco Circle Cocytus cried Dante Dante's death deep descend doom dost doth downward dread e'en e'er earth Emperor erst face Farinata degli Uberti fate father feet fell flame Florence Florentine gaze Ghibellines grief Guelphs hair hand haply hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Hell hide king leader lest limbs Lombardi look Lord Lucan Lucca Malebolge master mind Monte Aperto ne'er o'er once onward Ovid passage path Pharsalia Phlegyas Pistoia poet Pope pouch Pouch-Punishment Rimini Rome round Sabellus seemed shalt side sight soul spake speak sped spirit step stood tale tell thee thence thine eyes thought tide tongue torment tower turned Tuscan Virgil visage whence Wherefore wont words wound wrought yonder
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Seite 279 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 271 - Now Athamas cries out, his reason, fled, ' Here, fellow-hunters let the toils be spread; I saw a lioness in quest of food, With her two young, run roaring in this wood.
Seite 273 - To impose on their belief, and Troy betray : Fixed on his aim, and obstinately bent To die undaunted, or to circumvent. About the captive, tides of Trojans flow ; All press to see, and some insult the foe. Now hear how well the Greeks their wiles...
Seite 229 - Condemn'd with ghosts in endless night to lie — Before I break the plighted faith I gave! No! he who had my vows, shall ever have; For, whom I lov'd on earth, I worship in the grave.
Seite 272 - Haul'd from beneath the violated shade, And on the sacred pile the royal victim laid. His right hand held his bloody falchion bare ; His left he twisted in his hoary hair : Then, with a speeding thrust, his heart he found: The lukewarm blood came rushing through the wound, And sanguine streams distain'd the sacred ground.
Seite 243 - Ye princes, hear Your pleasing fortune, and dispel your fear. The fruitful isle of Crete, well known to fame, Sacred of old to Jove's imperial name, In the mid ocean lies, with large command, And on its plains a hundred cities stand. Another Ida rises there, and we From thence derive our Trojan ancestry.
Seite 247 - The horses started with a sudden bound, And flung the reins and chariot to the ground : The studded harness from their necks they broke, Here fell a wheel, and here a silver spoke, Here were the beam and axle torn away ; And, scattered o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay.
Seite 248 - Oh, father, father!' as he strove to cry, Down to the sea he tumbled from on high, And found his fate; yet still subsists by fame, Among those waters that retain his name. The father, now no more a father, cries, 'Ho, Icarus! Where are you?
Seite 262 - Glide not in such a monstrous shape away ! Destruction, like impetuous waves, rolls on. Where are thy feet, thy legs, thy shoulders, gone ? Changed is thy visage, changed is all thy frame, — Cadmus is only Cadmus now in name.
Seite 272 - The signoria showed themselves also worthy to be the governors of a city renowned for commerce, the arts, and liberty. The whole monetary system of Europe was at this period abandoned to the depredations of sovereigns who continually varied the title and weight of coins, — sometimes to defraud their creditors, at other times to force their debtors to pay more than they had received, or the tax-payers more than was due. During 150 years more, the kings of France violated their faith with the public,...