The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2W. Isbister, 1887 |
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angels Aquinas Summ BALLATA bear beatific vision Beatrice Beatrice's beauty blest bright Cacciaguida CANTO Canz CANZONE Christ Church Commedia Comp Conv Corso Donati Dante DANTE ALIGHIERI Dante's dear death desire Divine dost doth E'en earth Empyrean eternal eyes fair lady faith fame Florence Fraticelli gaze Ghibellines give glory God's grace Guido Cavalcanti hath heart Heaven holy honour hope Italian Italy Lady fair light look Love's mind Mopsus nature o'er Paradise passed Petrarch Piccarda poem poet poet's praise prayer Primum Mobile probably Provençal Purg Purgatory Ravenna rays Rome saints Scart seems seen shine smile song SONNET sorrow soul spake speak speech sphere spirit stars sweet tell thee thine things thou thought true truth turn viii virtue vision whence Wherefore Wisdom words xxxiii
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Page 403 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Page 461 - ... his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and lifelong unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection all converted into indignation : an implacable indignation ; slow, equable, silent, like that of a god ! The eye too, it...
Page 461 - I think it is the mournfulest face that ever was painted from reality; an altogether tragic, heartaffecting face. There is in it, as foundation of it, the softness, tenderness, gentle affection as of a child ; but all this is as if congealed into sharp contradiction, into abnegation, isolation, proud hopeless pain.
Page 426 - Thus doing, your name shall flourish in the printers' shops; thus doing, you shall be of kin to many a poetical preface; thus doing, you shall be most fair, most rich, most wise, most all; you shall dwell upon superlatives. Thus doing, though you be libertino patre natus, you shall suddenly grow Herculea proles, Si quid mea carmina possunt.
Page 428 - Phoebus' quire, That tunest their happiest lines in hymn or story. Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing, Met in the milder shades of purgatory.
Page 193 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 463 - What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy's being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel ; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth ! I suppose if ever pity, tender as a mother's, was in the heart of any man, it was in Dante's. But a man who does not know rigor cannot pity either. His very pity will be cowardly, egoistic, — sentimentality, or little better.
Page 463 - Purification"; an emblem of the noblest conception of that age. If Sin is so fatal, and Hell is and must be so rigorous, awful, yet in Repentance too is man purified; Repentance is the grand Christian act. It is beautiful how Dante works it out. The tremolar dell...
Page 462 - Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain ? Born as out of the black whirlwind ; — true effort, in fact, as of a captive struggling to free himself : that is Thought. In all ways we are "to become perfect through suffering.