A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1J. Murray, 1822 - 499 pages |
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... ( speaking merely humanly ) to compete with Christianity . The Greek and Latin poets lead to a discussion on the former : but Dante to the latter also ; for it can never be doubted but his creed ( however some of its tenets be considered ) ...
... ( speaking merely humanly ) to compete with Christianity . The Greek and Latin poets lead to a discussion on the former : but Dante to the latter also ; for it can never be doubted but his creed ( however some of its tenets be considered ) ...
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... speak of him as a poet . M. Sismondi is in- correct in stating that his political eminence was an exaggeration of after ages . He had bare- ly expired , when that eminence was emphati- cally avowed in writings that are still in being ...
... speak of him as a poet . M. Sismondi is in- correct in stating that his political eminence was an exaggeration of after ages . He had bare- ly expired , when that eminence was emphati- cally avowed in writings that are still in being ...
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... speak of his verses , having never seen them . But there is a far more an- cient and higher authority for English terza ri- ma than Mr. Haley authority of which I was not aware till this very morning , the au- thority of the partial ...
... speak of his verses , having never seen them . But there is a far more an- cient and higher authority for English terza ri- ma than Mr. Haley authority of which I was not aware till this very morning , the au- thority of the partial ...
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... speak of three hells , two beneath the surface of the earth , and one in the heart of the living sinner- a doctrine which I find in Macrobius , but not in Dante . Even this however introduces a difference rather in names , than things ...
... speak of three hells , two beneath the surface of the earth , and one in the heart of the living sinner- a doctrine which I find in Macrobius , but not in Dante . Even this however introduces a difference rather in names , than things ...
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... speak for itself . If to an Oltremonta- no , a cool , casual visitor , she appears even now the loveliest town in Europe , what must she not have been in the days of her liberty to her own favoured child ? On the beauty of the Panther ...
... speak for itself . If to an Oltremonta- no , a cool , casual visitor , she appears even now the loveliest town in Europe , what must she not have been in the days of her liberty to her own favoured child ? On the beauty of the Panther ...
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Page 73 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 482 - And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 84 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 483 - By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 24 - These be they that, as the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates, so these are waited on in the excellentest languages and best understandings with the foredescribed name of poets. For these, indeed, do merely make to imitate, and imitate both to delight and teach, and delight to move men to take that goodness in hand, which without delight they would fly as from a stranger...
Page 22 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 349 - And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Page 103 - Ch' ogni lingua divien tremando muta, E gli occhi non ardiscon di guardare. Ella sen va, sentendosi laudare, Benignamente d'umiltà vestuta;* E par che sia una cosa venuta Di cielo in terra a miracol mostrare. Mostrasi si piacente a chi la mira, Che dà per gli occhi una dolcezza al core, Che intender non la può chi non la prova.
Page 276 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 152 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.