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. Purgatorio |
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Ees , massa , shadow - catcher , true . ” “ What do you mean by a Shadow -
catcher ? ” “ Him ha coffin ” ( a little coffin was here produced ) , “ him set for catch
dem shadow . ” “ What shadow do you mean P ” “ When Now it is evening where
in ...
Ees , massa , shadow - catcher , true . ” “ What do you mean by a Shadow -
catcher ? ” “ Him ha coffin ” ( a little coffin was here produced ) , “ him set for catch
dem shadow . ” “ What shadow do you mean P ” “ When Now it is evening where
in ...
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Page 211 - 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 115 - 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 119 - 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 191 - 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 193 - 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.
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| Title | 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. Purgatorio Volume 2 of The Trilogy, John Wesley Thomas Volume 2 of The Trilogy: Or Dante's Three Visions, John Wesley Thomas |
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| Translated by | John Wesley Thomas |
| Illustrated by | John Wesley Thomas |
| Publisher | H. G. Bohn, 1862 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Dec 2005 |
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