The Lyrical Poems of Dante Alighieri: Including the Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito

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W. Smith, 1845 - 144 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة xvi - To whom the patriarch of mankind replied : O favourable spirit, propitious guest, Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set From centre to circumference, whereon, In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.
الصفحة xvi - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure: for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
الصفحة 13 - And sh ч in glory on a worthy throne. He who can speak of her without a tear A heart of stone must have, wicked and vile, Where never spirit benign can entrance find. The ignoble heart is fraught with sense too low To form imagination...
الصفحة 13 - So noble and so modest doth appear My lady when she any one salutes, That every tongue becomes in trembling mute, And none dare raise the eyes to look on her. Robed in humility she hears her praise, And passes on with calm benignity ; Appearing not a thing of earth, but come From heaven, to show mankind a miracle.
الصفحة 123 - E'en in its height of verdure, if an age Less bright succeed not. Cimabue thought To lord it over painting's field; and now The cry is Giotto's,* and his name eclipsed.
الصفحة 10 - Robin Hood: A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS, AND BALLADS now extant relative to that celebrated English Outlaw ; to which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life.
الصفحة 4 - Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: or the Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkas.
الصفحة 12 - I raised mine eyes, oppressed and bathed in tears, And saw what like a shower of manna seemed, And angels re-ascending up to heaven ; And spread before them was a little cloud, Behind which they were chanting loud, Hosanna. And if they more had added, you should hear. Then Love thus spoke : Concealment here shall end ; Come now and see our lady on her bier. Deceitful fancy then Conducted me to see my lady dead : And while I gazed, I saw That ladies with a veil were covering her ; And in her face...
الصفحة 7 - An angel to the intelligence divine Appeals, and says : Sire, in the world is seen A miracle in action, which proceeds From a fair soul whose splendour mounts thus high Heaven, that no want had ever known but her, Entreats to have her presence of its lord, And every saint aloud implores the grace. Pity alone opposes our request.

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