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" To this the short remaining watch, that yet Our senses have to wake, refuse not proof Of the unpeopled world, following the track Of Phoebus. Call to mind from whence ye sprang: Ye were not form'd to live the life of brutes, But virtue to pursue and knowledge... "
The vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary - Page 99
by Dante Alighieri - 1814
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise

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...
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The Vision of Dante Alighieri: Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise

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...
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The Works of Henry Van Dyke: Studies in Tennyson

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...
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The Translator of Dante: The Life, Work and Friendships of Henry Francis ...

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...
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The Inferno

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....
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Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue

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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