The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2W. Isbister, 1887 |
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angels appear Aquinas Summ BALLATA bear beatific vision Beatrice Beatrice's beauty blest Boniface VIII bright Cacciaguida CANTO Canz CANZONE Charles of Valois Christ Church circle clear Commedia Comp Conv Dante Dante's death desire Divine doth e'en earth Emperor Empyrean eternal eyes fair faith Florence Franciscan Fraticelli gaze Ghibellines give glory glow God's grace Guido Cavalcanti hath heart Heaven holy king Lady light look Love's Mopsus nature ne'er o'er Paradise pass Piccarda poem poet poet's praise prayer Primum Mobile probably Provençal Ptolemaic system Purg Ravenna rays Rome round saints Scart seems seen shine smile song SONNET soul spake speak speech sphere spirit stars sweet symbol tell thee thine things thou dost thought true truth turned virtue vision whence Wherefore Wisdom words xxxiii
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Page 405 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Page 195 - 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 428 - 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 444 - ... livid hue the flowers of Paradise and the glories of the Eternal Throne! All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Page 465 - 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 464 - Comedy that it is, in all senses, genuinely a Song. In the very sound of it there is a canto fermo ; it proceeds as by a chant. The language, his simple terza rima, doubtless helped him in this. One reads along naturally with a sort of lilt.
Page 497 - I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine! And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine. The air is filled with some unknown perfume; The congregation of the dead make room For thee to pass; the votive tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals...
Page 461 - I think that the central man of all the world, as representing in perfect balance the imaginative, moral, and intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante; and in him the grotesque reaches at once the most distinct and the most noble development to which it was ever brought in the human mind.
Page 464 - A thing woven as out of rainbows, on a ground of eternal black. A small flute-voice of infinite wail speaks there, into our very heart of hearts. A touch of womanhood in it too...
Page 444 - ... own love and her loveliness, by which as by steps he feigns himself to have ascended to the throne of the Supreme Cause, is the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. The acutest critics have justly reversed the judgment of the vulgar, and the order of the great acts of the Divine Drama, in the measure of the admiration which they accord to the Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.