Among My Books: Second SeriesOsgood, 1876 - 327 sider |
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Side 13
... measures . Whether he was present at their futile assault on Flor- ence ( July 22 , 1304 ) is doubtful , but probably he was not . From the Ottimo Comento , written at least in part by a contemporary as early as 1333 , we learn that ...
... measures . Whether he was present at their futile assault on Flor- ence ( July 22 , 1304 ) is doubtful , but probably he was not . From the Ottimo Comento , written at least in part by a contemporary as early as 1333 , we learn that ...
Side 38
... measurements of Dante were not prosaic , but absolutely demanded by the nature of his poem . He is describing an actual journey , and his exactness makes a part of the verisim- ilitude . We read the " Paradise Lost " as a poem , the ...
... measurements of Dante were not prosaic , but absolutely demanded by the nature of his poem . He is describing an actual journey , and his exactness makes a part of the verisim- ilitude . We read the " Paradise Lost " as a poem , the ...
Side 53
... measure adopted by the Priors of Florence while he was one of them ( with his assent and probably by his counsel ) , of sending to the frontier the leading men of both factions , confirms this implica- tion . Among the persons thus ...
... measure adopted by the Priors of Florence while he was one of them ( with his assent and probably by his counsel ) , of sending to the frontier the leading men of both factions , confirms this implica- tion . Among the persons thus ...
Side 57
... measure " as a mis- tress of whom no lover takes complete joy . " * The eyes of this lady are her demonstrations , and her smile is her persuasion . " The eyes of wisdom are her demonstra- tions by which truth is beheld most certainly ...
... measure " as a mis- tress of whom no lover takes complete joy . " * The eyes of this lady are her demonstrations , and her smile is her persuasion . " The eyes of wisdom are her demonstra- tions by which truth is beheld most certainly ...
Side 83
... measure . + He , too , had found that there was but one straight road , whether to the Terrestrial Paradise or the Celestial City , and may come to question by and by whether they be not parallel one with the other , or even parts of ...
... measure . + He , too , had found that there was but one straight road , whether to the Terrestrial Paradise or the Celestial City , and may come to question by and by whether they be not parallel one with the other , or even parts of ...
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Side 296 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Side 1 - Rossetti. - A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World and his Pilgrimage.
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 275 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Side 214 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Side 313 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
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 300 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
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.