Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)Methuen & Company, 1909 - Comparative literature |
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... perhaps as proud of him as Florence of her Dante : it is the same feeling , though proceeding from persons one cannot bring together in this way , without offering some apology to the Shade of the great Visionary . CHARLES SYMMONS ...
... perhaps as proud of him as Florence of her Dante : it is the same feeling , though proceeding from persons one cannot bring together in this way , without offering some apology to the Shade of the great Visionary . CHARLES SYMMONS ...
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... perhaps , too hastily led to conclude , that nothing else can , by any possibility , have found admission into such a composition . The fact is , however , quite the contrary , and the reader , thus pre- judiced , will be astonished to ...
... perhaps , too hastily led to conclude , that nothing else can , by any possibility , have found admission into such a composition . The fact is , however , quite the contrary , and the reader , thus pre- judiced , will be astonished to ...
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... Perhaps this fleeting present hour may claim One who shall bear from both their vain renown . The world's applause is but a passing wind , An idle blast , now this , now that way blown , And changing name with every point assign'd , etc ...
... Perhaps this fleeting present hour may claim One who shall bear from both their vain renown . The world's applause is but a passing wind , An idle blast , now this , now that way blown , And changing name with every point assign'd , etc ...
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... Cary , in one of the notes on his admirable translation of the poet ) perhaps wandered in this wood during his abode with Guido Novello da Polenta . ' nothing short of a crisis seemed worthy to interest . CENT . XIX . MOORE 25.
... Cary , in one of the notes on his admirable translation of the poet ) perhaps wandered in this wood during his abode with Guido Novello da Polenta . ' nothing short of a crisis seemed worthy to interest . CENT . XIX . MOORE 25.
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... perhaps but for it would never have written the Prisoner of Chillon ; while Sir Walter Scott in the Quarterly Review institutes a comparison between the two ; but the resemblances such as they are , are too slight to justify the ...
... perhaps but for it would never have written the Prisoner of Chillon ; while Sir Walter Scott in the Quarterly Review institutes a comparison between the two ; but the resemblances such as they are , are too slight to justify the ...
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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...