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
| Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine (known as) - French fiction - 1855 - 354 pages
...tenebris. " Dante describes the entrance to the Inferno in a similar style — (Gary's Translation) : "E'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild...growth, Which to remember only my dismay Renews." " But when a mountain's foot I reached, when down The valley that had pierced my heart with dread I... | |
| Forest management - 1926 - 346 pages
...LC Ev^rard, US Forest Service H I found me in a gloomy wood, astray and e f en to tell It were not easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth." —said Dante; "thick as leaves on Vallombrosa" said Milton. The .American reading these passages OEmediately... | |
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