| Dante Alighieri - Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844 - 1909 - 450 pages
...Ye were not form'd to live the life of brutes, But virtue to pursue and knowledge high.' With these few words I sharpen'd for the voyage The mind of my associates, that I then Gould scarcely have withheld them. To the dawn Our poop we turn'd, and for the witless flight Made... | |
| Dante Alighieri - Allegory - 1910 - 494 pages
...the lives of brutes, ' But virtue to pursue and knowledge high. ' With these few words I sharpen 'd for the voyage The mind of my associates, that I then...dawn Our poop we turn'd, and for the witless flight Made our oars wings, still gaining on the left. Each star of the other pole night now beheld, And ours... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - Christian fiction - 1921 - 460 pages
...and knowledge high.' With these few words I sharpened for the voyage The mind of my associates, thai I then Could scarcely have withheld them. To the dawn Our poop we turn'd, and for the witless flight Made our oars wings, still gaining on the left. Each star of the other pole night now beheld, And ours... | |
| Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...live the life of brutes, But virtue to pursue and knowledge high." With these few words I sharpened for the voyage The mind of my associates, that I then...scarcely have withheld them. To the dawn Our poop we turned, and for the witless flight Made our oars wings, still gaining on the left. Each star of the... | |
| Dante Alighieri - Fiction - 1998 - 226 pages
...live the lives of brutes, But virtue to pursue and knowledge high." With these few words I sharpened for the voyage The mind of my associates, that I then Could scarcely have withheld them. To the dawn 120 Our poop we turned, and for the witless flight Made our oars wings, still gaining on the left.... | |
| Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 408 pages
...Ye were not form'd to live the life of brutes, But virtue to pursue and knowledge high." With these few words I sharpen'd for the voyage The mind of my...associates, that I then Could scarcely have withheld them. (26:111—22, trans. Gary) Dante's Ulysses quotes his own disastrously convincing "few words," and... | |
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