 IN the midway * of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct ; and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in...  The vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary - Page viiby Dante Alighieri - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1892 - 480 pages
...are sumptuously performed at Ruvcuua by Guido, who himself died in the ensuing year. ELL. CANTO 1 I» the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in...e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild Thst forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1894 - 790 pages
...have happened in 1300, when he was thirty-five, shortly after his banishment from Florence. He says : "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1894 - 544 pages
...INFERNO. THE POET'S GUIDE TO THE INFERNO. FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTK ALUOHIERI. Renews Yet, to All else the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a...were no easy task how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only my dismay in bitterness not far from death.. discourse... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - Christianity - 1895 - 346 pages
...become eccentric, they have at last landed their followers in Dante's J serious predicament : — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...task, how savage wild That forest, how rohust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death." 1 We... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - Christianity - 1895 - 344 pages
...have become eccentric, they have at last landed their followers in Dante's serious predicament : — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death."... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - 1896 - 354 pages
...have become eccentric, they have at last landed their followers in Dante's serious predicament : — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild LEADERSHIP OF CHBIST. 147 That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - Bookbinding - 1896 - 238 pages
...whining unsuccessful, and leave to your inferiors the earthly five-shilling pieces. A POET IN THE CITY ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray.' I (and when I say I, I must be understood to be speaking dramatically) only venture into the City once... | |
 | Aestheticism (Literature) - 1896 - 490 pages
...shall never shake it off." Three Prose Fancies By Richard Le Gallienne I — A Poet in the City ** In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray." I (and when I say I, I must be understood to be speaking dramatically) I only venture into the City... | |
 | John Bunyan - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1896 - 228 pages
...Faerie Queene, which deserves to stand beside it, The Divine Comedy of Dante : — " In the mid way of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood apart." 2. By the den Bunyan doubtless meant to signify Bedford jail, where he was a prisoner at the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1897 - 526 pages
...F'urgatory ; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from... | |
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