The Divine Comedy of Dante: The InfernoC. Scribner's Sons, 1904 - 305 páginas |
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The Divine Comedy of Dante: The Inferno Marvin Richardson Vincent,Dante Alighieri Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
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Aeneid appears bank barratry battle of Montaperti beast Beatrice behold Bolgia Boniface bottom bridge Brunetto Brunetto Latini called CANTO Capaneus cause Charles of Valois Charon Church Cocytus Commedia Comp Conv crag Dante Dante says Dante's death descend divine dost downward earth embankment Emperor evil eyes face fear feet fire flame Florence Florentine fraud Geryon Ghibellines Greek Guelfs Guide Guido hand hast head Heaven Hell hemisphere Inferno Italy King look Lucifer Malebolge Mantua Master means Metam Minos moved note on Inf Ovid pass passage Phlegethon Phlegyas Pistoia poem poets Pope punishment Purg Purgatory replied river rock Romagna Roman Rome round seems serpent seventh circle shade side Siena Sienese sins soul speak spirits Statius story tears tell thee thou art thou shalt thyself tongue torment tower trench turned Tuscany Ugolino valley Vergil viii Villani whence words
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Página 215 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 266 - They rolled him up in a sheet of lead — A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him, lead, and bones, and all.
Página 268 - ... stones," and that they moved often under his feet by reason of the new weight. The fact is that Dante, by many expressions throughout the poem, shows himself to have been a notably bad climber ; and being fond of sitting in the sun, looking at his fair Baptistery, or walking in a dignified manner on flat pavement in a long robe, it puts him seriously out of his way when he has to take to his hands and knees, or look to his feet...
Página 197 - as dead leaves flutter from a bough," he gives the most perfect image possible of their utter lightness, feebleness, passiveness, and scattering agony of despair, without, however, for an instant losing his own clear perception that these are souls, and those are leaves : he makes no confusion of one with the other.
Página 295 - Antaeus, the son of Terra, the Earth, was a mighty giant and wrestler, whose strength was invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother Earth.
Página 221 - ... the sweet light of mortal day. Genius has never proved its potency so mightily as by the way in which so many petty tumults and faetionaries of the thirteenth century, so many trifling incidents and local circumstances, passed out of all human importance for the last six hundred years, have been held suspended in a fierce light of life and reality, unable to perish and get themselves safe into oblivion up to this very day, in consequence of their connection with this one man.
Página 30 - And gnash'd their teeth, soon as the cruel words They heard. God and their parents they blasphemed, The human kind, the place, the time, and seed, That did engender them and give them birth. Then all together sorely wailing drew To the curst strand, that every man must pass Who fears not God.
Página 220 - ... judgment, was neither scornful and godless infidelity, nor certainly a more advanced and enlightened Christianity, yearning after holiness and purity not then attainable. It was the shattered, dubious, at times trembling faith, at times desperately reckless incredulity, of a man...
Página 215 - Forthwith from every squadron and each band The heads and leaders thither haste where stood Their great commander ; godlike shapes and forms Excelling human, princely dignities ; And powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones...
Página 204 - For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kinde of infortune is this, A man to have ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.