 As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding : with such force My cry prevail'd,...  The vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary - Page 11by Dante Alighieri - 1814Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1818 - 616 pages
...loud woüing," &c. Two in particular approached to hiro^ the unfortunate lovers of lUmini: " As doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings, And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along : Thus issued from that troop, — They through (he ill air speeding." Innumerable... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...speech . " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrained. " As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; They came ....;-.--- Then, turning, J to them my speech addressed, And thus began... | |
 | Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 pages
...L'Orient bore him on his way, seeming to have imbibed the anxious feelings of his master; and " as doves, by fond desire invited, on wide wings and firm, to...sweet nest returning home, cleave the air, wafted by their will along, they came." Edgar had been nine months absent, and was now approaching his eighteenth... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 pages
...L'Orient bore him on his way, seeming to have imbibed the anxious feelings of his master; and " as doves, by fond desire invited, on wide wings and firm, to...sweet nest returning home, cleave the air, wafted by their will along, they came." Edgar had been nine months absent, and was now approaching his eighteenth... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1822
...toward us, I thus fram'd my speeeh : " O wearied spirits ! eome, and hold diseourse 'With us, .I by none else restrain'd." As doves 80 By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to the ir sweet nest returnmg home, ,, Cleave the air, wafted by their w:l! along ; Thus issu'd, from... | |
 | Ugo Foscolo - Platonic love - 1823 - 348 pages
...portate. " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along. GARY'S Transl. This translator frequently contravenes the position of his author,... | |
 | Ugo Foscolo - Platonic love - 1823 - 352 pages
...portate. " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave die air, wafted by their will along. GARY'S Transl. This translator frequently contravenes the position... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...speech : " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...and hold discourse With us, if by none else restraiu'd.' Hearkening to the call, they came as doves, By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning borne, Cleave the air." One of the two then addresses Daute thus : — " O gracious creature and benign... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...speech : " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to...sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding... | |
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