Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)Methuen & Company, 1909 - Comparative literature |
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... light , to us below Revealed the secrets of eternity . Ill did his thankless countrymen repay The fine desire ; that which the good and great So often from the insensate many meet , That evil guerdon did our Dantè find . But gladly ...
... light , to us below Revealed the secrets of eternity . Ill did his thankless countrymen repay The fine desire ; that which the good and great So often from the insensate many meet , That evil guerdon did our Dantè find . But gladly ...
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... light and glory of the sons of song ! So favour me , as I thy page have sought With unremitting love , and study long ! Thou art the guide and master of my thought ; Sole author thou , from whom the inspired strain That crowns my name ...
... light and glory of the sons of song ! So favour me , as I thy page have sought With unremitting love , and study long ! Thou art the guide and master of my thought ; Sole author thou , from whom the inspired strain That crowns my name ...
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... light along the leafy shore , Shooting the falls , without a dip of oar Or breath of Zephyr , like the mystic bark The poet saw , in dreams divinely dark , Borne , without sails , along the dusky flood , While on its deck a pilot angel ...
... light along the leafy shore , Shooting the falls , without a dip of oar Or breath of Zephyr , like the mystic bark The poet saw , in dreams divinely dark , Borne , without sails , along the dusky flood , While on its deck a pilot angel ...
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... light of day , In- -'s2 puffs exhal'd our lives away- Like summer windmills , doom'd to dusty peace , When the brisk gales , that lent them motion , cease . Ah , little knew we then what ills await Much - lauded scribblers in their ...
... light of day , In- -'s2 puffs exhal'd our lives away- Like summer windmills , doom'd to dusty peace , When the brisk gales , that lent them motion , cease . Ah , little knew we then what ills await Much - lauded scribblers in their ...
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... light and passing may be the feeling of hostility with which a partisan in the field of satire plies his laughing warfare ; and how often it may happen that even the pride of hitting his mark hardly outlives the flight of the shaft ...
... light and passing may be the feeling of hostility with which a partisan in the field of satire plies his laughing warfare ; and how often it may happen that even the pride of hitting his mark hardly outlives the flight of the shaft ...
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admiration ancient ANONYMOUS appeared Ariosto Beatrice beautiful Boccaccio born Brunetto Latini Byron Canto Cary century character Charles criticism DANTE ALIGHIERI Dante and Petrarch Dante's death died Divina Commedia Divine Comedy Edinburgh Review edition English Essay exile eyes father feeling Florence Florentine Foscolo Francesca genius Giotto Guido heart heaven Hell History Homer Ibid imagination imitation Inferno Italian language Italian poets Italy JOHN language Letter literary literature lived London Lord Lord Byron Magazine Michael Angelo Milton mind never original painting Paradise passage passion Petrarch picture Pisa poem poet poetical poetry portrait printed prose published Purg Purgatorio QUARTERLY REVIEW Ravenna reader references to Dante remarkable rhyme Rome Rossetti Shakespeare Shelley sonnets soul spirit Stanza style sublime Tasso terza rima thee things THOMAS thou thought tion Ugo Foscolo Ugolino Venice verse Virgil Vita Nuova volume words write
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Page 318 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 286 - Ahi, Costantin, di quanto mal fu matre, Non la tua conversion, ma quella dote Che da te prese il primo ricco patre!
Page 315 - THE poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. He saw thro' life and death, thro' good and ill, He saw thro
Page 208 - Come un poco di raggio si fu messo Nel doloroso carcere, ed io scorsi Per quattro visi il mio aspetto stesso, Ambo le mani per dolor mi morsi ; E quei, pensando eh...
Page 317 - It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 318 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work; I mine. "There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with meThat ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 317 - I am become a name ; for always roaming with a hungry heart much have I seen and known ; cities of men and manners, climates, councils, governments, myself not least, but...
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Page 249 - Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat'ries, He passeth by ; and his weak spirit fails To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.
Page 379 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...