Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c.1380-1833)Methuen & Company, 1909 - Comparative literature |
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... references to Dante occur in the former , which contains translations by Southey of Michael Angelo's two sonnets on Dante . Duppa also published anony- mously in 1825 Miscellaneous Observations and Opinions on the Continent , in which ...
... references to Dante occur in the former , which contains translations by Southey of Michael Angelo's two sonnets on Dante . Duppa also published anony- mously in 1825 Miscellaneous Observations and Opinions on the Continent , in which ...
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... references to Dante are introduced into this work . Bland contributed to the Quarterly Review in 1814 an article on the literary histories of Italy by Ginguenè and Sismondi , which contains an interesting criticism of the Divina ...
... references to Dante are introduced into this work . Bland contributed to the Quarterly Review in 1814 an article on the literary histories of Italy by Ginguenè and Sismondi , which contains an interesting criticism of the Divina ...
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... References to it are frequent in his poems and Diary ; his Dream of Two Sisters is avowedly a close imitation of a passage from the twenty - seventh canto of the Purgatorio ; while another poem is a parody of part of the fifth canto of ...
... References to it are frequent in his poems and Diary ; his Dream of Two Sisters is avowedly a close imitation of a passage from the twenty - seventh canto of the Purgatorio ; while another poem is a parody of part of the fifth canto of ...
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... references to Dante in many of his poems , viz . in the Corsair ( 1814 ) ; Childe Harold , Canto iv . ( 1818 ) ; Don Juan , Cantos i . and ii . ( 1819 ) , Cantos iii . and iv . ( 1821 ) , Cantos vi . , vii . , and x . ( 1823 ) , and ...
... references to Dante in many of his poems , viz . in the Corsair ( 1814 ) ; Childe Harold , Canto iv . ( 1818 ) ; Don Juan , Cantos i . and ii . ( 1819 ) , Cantos iii . and iv . ( 1821 ) , Cantos vi . , vii . , and x . ( 1823 ) , and ...
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... . ] 4 [ A reference to Dryden's poem Theodore and Honoria , which is based on one of the stories in the Decameron ( Giorn . v . Nov. 8 ) . ] 1820. Feb. 21 . LETTER TO JOHN MURRAY ( from 36 DANTE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... . ] 4 [ A reference to Dryden's poem Theodore and Honoria , which is based on one of the stories in the Decameron ( Giorn . v . Nov. 8 ) . ] 1820. Feb. 21 . LETTER TO JOHN MURRAY ( from 36 DANTE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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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.