The Trilogy: On the Catholicism of Dante. On the doctrine of purgatory and its origin. On the figurative senses of Dante's poem. On the style of Dante. Time table of Purgatorio. Plan of Purgatorio. PurgatorioH. G. Bohn, 1862 |
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... remain strangely incrusted . Therefore they are tortured with pains and undergo punishment for bygone faults . Some hung up are exposed to the winds ; others , beneath a vast gulf , are washed from the crime that pollutes them ; others ...
... remain strangely incrusted . Therefore they are tortured with pains and undergo punishment for bygone faults . Some hung up are exposed to the winds ; others , beneath a vast gulf , are washed from the crime that pollutes them ; others ...
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... remains of unbelief , St. Patrick's Purgatory was contrived ; and was for ages the wonder and terror of Christendom . It ... remain therein a day and a night . There he constructed an oratory , en- closed the cave , and appointed a small ...
... remains of unbelief , St. Patrick's Purgatory was contrived ; and was for ages the wonder and terror of Christendom . It ... remain therein a day and a night . There he constructed an oratory , en- closed the cave , and appointed a small ...
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... remain'd , " he then replied , " That nothing she desired could I decline . Now that she dwells beyond the evil tide , She cannot move me ; so that law ordains Which was establish'd when from thence I hied . 90 But if a heavenly dame ...
... remain'd , " he then replied , " That nothing she desired could I decline . Now that she dwells beyond the evil tide , She cannot move me ; so that law ordains Which was establish'd when from thence I hied . 90 But if a heavenly dame ...
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... Remains between the Sun and winter's cold , And for the reason which thy words impart , Lies northward from where we are now , although Seen by the Hebrews toward the warmer part.1 But if it please thee , gladly I would know , Since ...
... Remains between the Sun and winter's cold , And for the reason which thy words impart , Lies northward from where we are now , although Seen by the Hebrews toward the warmer part.1 But if it please thee , gladly I would know , Since ...
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... remains to my control are given . " 2 In consequence of the Nestorian controversy , says MOSHEIM , the image of the Virgin Mary , holding the child Jesus in her arms , was in the fifth century introduced into churches ( i . 130 ) . The ...
... remains to my control are given . " 2 In consequence of the Nestorian controversy , says MOSHEIM , the image of the Virgin Mary , holding the child Jesus in her arms , was in the fifth century introduced into churches ( i . 130 ) . The ...
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Page 207 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, From the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page xviii - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 111 - And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 62 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 115 - And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Page 45 - But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Page xxviii - The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it. His words are the fewest and the best which it is possible to use. The first expression in which he clothes his thoughts is always so energetic and comprehensive that amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind ; yet there...
Page 63 - And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD ; and she despised him in her heart.
Page 187 - DESCEND from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art call'd, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing...
Page 189 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him ; and they were full of eyes within : and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.