Among My Books: Second SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 327 sider |
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Side 10
... politics of this period , one has only to study the various histories . The result is a spectrum on the mind's eye , which looks definite and brilliant , but really hinders all accurate vision , as if from too steady inspection of a ...
... politics of this period , one has only to study the various histories . The result is a spectrum on the mind's eye , which looks definite and brilliant , but really hinders all accurate vision , as if from too steady inspection of a ...
Side 27
... politics up to the time of his banishment , and that out of resentment he then became a violent Ghibelline . Not to speak of the consideration that there is no author whose life and works present so remarkable a unity and logical ...
... politics up to the time of his banishment , and that out of resentment he then became a violent Ghibelline . Not to speak of the consideration that there is no author whose life and works present so remarkable a unity and logical ...
Side 28
... political theory as being an ideal Ghibellinism " * and he has been accused of want of patriotism only by those short - sighted persons who cannot see beyond their own parish . Dante's want of faith in freedom was of the same kind with ...
... political theory as being an ideal Ghibellinism " * and he has been accused of want of patriotism only by those short - sighted persons who cannot see beyond their own parish . Dante's want of faith in freedom was of the same kind with ...
Side 30
... political treatise with those of Aristotle and Spinoza . We thus see more clearly the limitations . of the age in which he lived , and this may help us to a broader view of him as poet . some parts textually exact , in others an ...
... political treatise with those of Aristotle and Spinoza . We thus see more clearly the limitations . of the age in which he lived , and this may help us to a broader view of him as poet . some parts textually exact , in others an ...
Side 31
... political pamphlet , he would certainly not have composed it in the dialect of the few . The De Vulgari Eloquio was to have been in four books . Whether it was ever finished or not it is impossible to say ; but only two books have come ...
... political pamphlet , he would certainly not have composed it in the dialect of the few . The De Vulgari Eloquio was to have been in four books . Whether it was ever finished or not it is impossible to say ; but only two books have come ...
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Side 182 - Selinns all alone With blossoms brave bedecked daintily, Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath that under heaven is blown.
Side 150 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Side 145 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Side 285 - The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can...
Side 280 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Side 183 - To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver 'bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden...
Side 71 - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Side 248 - MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none, While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
Side 1 - Rossetti.— A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World, and his Pilgrimage.
Side 318 - After regarding it steadfastly, he looked up in my face with a calmness of countenance that I can never forget, and said, ' I know the colour of that blood — it is arterial blood — I cannot be deceived in that colour — that drop of blood is my deathwarrant — I must die.