Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c.1380-1833)Methuen & Company, 1909 - Comparative literature |
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... Purgatorio ; and the subject of the Brazen Serpent , in the Sistine Chapel , must remind every reader of Canto xxv dell ' Inferno , where the flying serpents , the writhing and contortions of the human body from envenomed wounds , are ...
... Purgatorio ; and the subject of the Brazen Serpent , in the Sistine Chapel , must remind every reader of Canto xxv dell ' Inferno , where the flying serpents , the writhing and contortions of the human body from envenomed wounds , are ...
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... Purgatorio ] are the meeting of Dante with his friend , the musician Casella , which Milton has consecrated to the imagination of the English reader , and that with the painter Oderisi da Gubbio , who is condemned to purgatory for ...
... Purgatorio ] are the meeting of Dante with his friend , the musician Casella , which Milton has consecrated to the imagination of the English reader , and that with the painter Oderisi da Gubbio , who is condemned to purgatory for ...
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... Purgatorio , hope is everything and everywhere about us . In both alike , the number of interesting episodes , the pictures of human character , and of objects both real and fantastic , but which we fancy real because they invest ideal ...
... Purgatorio , hope is everything and everywhere about us . In both alike , the number of interesting episodes , the pictures of human character , and of objects both real and fantastic , but which we fancy real because they invest ideal ...
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... Purgatorio ; while another poem is a parody of part of the fifth canto of the Inferno . ] 1806 . LINES WRITTEN AT THE FALLS OF THE MOHAWK RIVER . G [ Motto from Dante ] IÀ era in loco ove s'udia ' l ribombo Dell ' acqua - 1 Dante ...
... Purgatorio ; while another poem is a parody of part of the fifth canto of the Inferno . ] 1806 . LINES WRITTEN AT THE FALLS OF THE MOHAWK RIVER . G [ Motto from Dante ] IÀ era in loco ove s'udia ' l ribombo Dell ' acqua - 1 Dante ...
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... [ Purgatorio viii . 1-6 ] ( Stanzas x - xi . ) Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas , on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his ...
... [ Purgatorio viii . 1-6 ] ( Stanzas x - xi . ) Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas , on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his ...
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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 679 - Lasciasser d' operare ogni lor arte ; Ma con piena letizia, l' ore prime Cantando, riceveano intra le foglie, Che tenevan bordone alle sue rime Tal, qual di ramo in ramo si raccoglie Per la pineta, in sul lito di Chiassi, Quand' Eolo scirocco fuor discioglie.
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 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 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.
Page 42 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay.
Page 318 - 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 me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 223 - Every man's mind is, in this respect, modified by all the objects of nature and art; by every word and every suggestion which he ever admitted to act upon his consciousness; it is the mirror upon which all forms are reflected, and in which they compose one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.