The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of Dante AlighieriW. D. Ticknor [private printing], 1843 - 83 páginas |
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Acheron amid answered art thou bard beautiful behold blest CANTO Cerberus Charon Ciacco Cicero circles Commedia crew DANTE ALIGHIERI dark descend desire Dido Divina Commedia dost dread dwell earth Empoli eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes fain Farinata FARINATA DEGLI UBERTI fear fierce fioco flame Florence foes forlorn gainst gate gazing gentle Ghibelines ghost gloom Goethe gracious Guelfs hand hath hear heav'n heaven's HELL hoarse holy hope horrid howling light lofty look lord master may'st mighty Minos o'er obscurity pace pain pangs passage Phlegyas phrase pity Plutus poem Poet pow'r proud race realm render replied round sage scorn seemed shade shriek sighing silence silenzio sinners soul spake speak speech spirits Styx thee thou shalt thyself tombs torments tow'rd TRANSLATED turned Tuscany unto utter Virgil Whereat Wherefore wholly WILLIAM D words wrath wretched yonder
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Página 52 - Those clothed with flesh, and life inspires the dead; The sacred poets first shall hear the sound, And foremost from the tomb shall bound, For they are...
Página 62 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Página 67 - ... date ? He has not, indeed, left one of those universal works which exact tribute from all sympathies. There is an individuality in his imagination which makes those whose fancies run wholly in another vein, sensible only of his difficulty or his dullness. He is less to be commended than loved, and they who truly feel his charm will need no argument for their passionate fondness.
Página 53 - When they come at last, Clothed in their now forsaken frames of clay, From dread Jehoshaphat,— the judgment past, — These flaming dens must all be barred for aye. Here in their cemetery, on this side, With his whole sect is Epicurus pent, Who thought the spirit with its body died : Soon, therefore, thy desire shall be content, — Ay, and the secret wish thou hid'st from me."
Página 66 - Dante ranks among us in somewhat of the same predicament with Goethe. Both seem vapid and uninspired to those who cannot drink of their fountains at the rocky source. But the Florentine has this advantage over the bard of Weimar : that time, which alone forms the enduring crystal, has tested by upwards of half a thousand ages the hardness of his reputation, and proved that it is not glass. The opinion of what we call the world — the contemporary world — is fallacious; but the judgment of the...