 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 of Dante Alighieri - Page 3by Dante Alighieri - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1896 - 678 pages
...exaggeration be likened to Dante when he found himself wandering in the mazes of the gloomy wood : " Even to tell It were no easy task, how savage, wild That forest."* * Inferno, Cant. I, 3, Gary's Translation. If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - Latin poetry - 1864 - 266 pages
...medieval poets, and transmitted by them to Dante, Chaucer, etc. Ey The Divine Comedy opens thus : ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood; savage, wild That forest, and robust and rough its growth.' (Cary's Translation.) And Chaucer, ' The... | |
 | John Duns - Religion and science - 1899 - 330 pages
...few, alas ! compared with those who could not : — " In midway of this our mortal life I found one in a gloomy wood astray, Gone from the path direct...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how rohuat and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death."... | |
 | English essays - 1866 - 1004 pages
...darkling recesses of the mysterious wood ; and we seem to hear the low utterance of the very words — In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray. There is a bright light upon a rugged bank, out of which break forth, half-discovering themselves,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1873 - 364 pages
...nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura Che la diritta via era smarrita. " DANTE — Inferno. " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in...a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my " Working Life " the recital of some of its passages in my... | |
 | Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 516 pages
...nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura • Che la diritta via era smarrita. " DANTE — Inferno. " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in...a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my "Working Life " the recital of some of its passages in my... | |
 | Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 508 pages
...vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura Che la diritta via era smarrita." DANTE—Inferno. st In tlie midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my "Working Life" the recital of some of its passages in my vocation... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1875 - 558 pages
...Commedia," Dante's stern, sublime, deeply meditative epic, opens with words which we thus turn : " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in...gloomy wood, astray — Gone from the path direct." in the Spenserian stanza — we select the parting words to the island nymph Calypso, of Odysseus :... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 pages
...•taken for the model of that in which he found himself astray — -and e'en to tell It were no lazy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth." There the only sounds which break on the ear are the tap tap of the woodpeckers, the drum of the grouse... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1879 - 306 pages
...working from the same hint, found his obscure wood and wanderings midway along the road of life : — " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray.'* The darkest periods of the Church's history were those we call the Middle Ages. By this, however, it... | |
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