...f . 1 " Who is blessed throughout all ages." i THE DIVINE COMEDY. IbeU CANTO I. ARGUMENT. The Poet, having lost his way in a gloomy forest, and being...the path direct : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task,Jiow savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay...

...is met by Virgil, who promises to show him the punishments of Hell, and afterwards of F'urgatory ; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what...

...Where should he go for help? How does he describe his situation? In a way most pathetic and solemn. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." No flourish of trumpets, no burst of self-assertion, no splendour of imagination, yet we are opening...

...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"* If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the realm of imagination, strive to picture to...

...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway 1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember 2 only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. 1 In the midway.] That the sera of the...

...may, to the greatest possible extent, continue to be preserved in the country. In the ancient style. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct.* — Gary. No feeling of loyalty and veneration can enter the breast of a man who is base by nature....

...himself to be SALE OF INDIAN "FLOATS." 29 a thoroughgoing man of affairs. With Dante he could say : "In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood." Mr. Kent was the director and provider of those who were to begin the work of transformation from the...

...her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 670. Selections from Gary's Dante's Inferno. i. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay II. Tet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. — Line 8....

...dead." w 338 CCLXVI. MID-LIFE. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray." It was at the point of mid-life, that the poet found himself involved in the deepest obscurity, mental...

...not a dream. He was wide awake (in this, as in so much else, an exception and a protest), when — In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood. The Man. is suddenly introduced — a typical figure, like ' Everyman ' in the old Morality Play. In...