A Shadow of Dante: Being an Essay Towards Studying Himself, His World and His Pilgrimage |
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Shadow of Dante: Being an Essay Towards Studying World, and His Pilgrimage ... Maria Francesca Rossetti No preview available - 2015 |
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Æther already Angels answered appeared ascent Beatrice beautiful began behold Blessed Cacciaguida Charles of Anjou Christ Circle Cocytus Convito creatures Dante Dante's death descended desire didst discern Divine dost doth earth Emperor Empyrean eternal evil eyes face faith father feet fire flame Florence Fraticelli gaze Geryon glory grace Guido heard Heaven Hell holy human intellect Judecca Justice Lady light living look Lord marvellous master mind mortal mount moved nature o'er Paradise pass Penitents Phlegethon Piccarda Pier delle Vigne Pilgrims pleasure Poets Pope Boniface VIII Primum Mobile Purgatory rays round Saints seemed seen Shade sight sins smile soon Sordello soul speak Sphere of Air Spirits star Statius Styx sweet Terrace thee thine things thou hast thou shalt thyself truth turned Ugolino della Gherardesca unto upward Virgil Virgilius virtue vision Vita Nuova voice weeping Whence Wherefore wherein words
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Page 184 - Such as from branch to branch goes gathering on Through the pine forest on the shore of Chiassi, » When Eolus unlooses the Sirocco. Already my slow steps had carried me Into the ancient wood so far, that I Could not perceive where I had entered it.
Page 182 - Take thine own pleasure for thy guide henceforth ; Beyond the steep ways and the narrow art thou. Behold the sun, that shines upon thy forehead ; Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs Which of itself alone this land produces.
Page 244 - That it shall not its origin discern Far beyond that which is apparent to it. Therefore into the justice sempiternal The power of vision that your world receives, As eye into the ocean, penetrates; Which, though it see the bottom near the shore, Upon the deep perceives it not, and yet 'Tis there, but it is hidden by the depth.
Page 261 - The ancient Scriptures and the new The mark establish, and this shows it me, Of all the souls whom God hath made his friends. Isaiah saith, that each one garmented In his own land shall be with twofold garments, And his own land is this delightful life. Thy brother, too, far more explicitly, There where he treateth of the robes of white, This revelation manifests to us.
Page 254 - That Polyhymnia and her sisters made Most lubrical with their delicious milk, To aid me, to a thousandth of the truth It would not reach, singing the holy smile And how the holy aspect it illumed.
Page 285 - tis not enough to call it little ! O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest, Sole knowest thyself, and, known unto thyself And knowing, lovest and smilest on thyself!
Page 275 - IN fashion then as of a snow-white rose Displayed itself to me the saintly host, Whom Christ in his own blood had made his bride, But the other host, that flying sees and sings The glory of Him who doth...
Page 285 - Of threefold colour and of one dimension, And by the second seemed the first reflected As Iris is by Iris, and the third Seemed fire that equally from both is breathed.
Page 260 - Thou didst instil me, then, with his instilling In the Epistle, so that I am full, And upon others rain again your rain.