A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante Translated Into English Tierce Rhyme with an Introductory Essay on Dante and His TranslatorsPartridge, 1877 - 179 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
already Antæus appear arms behold bide blank verse breast Brunetto Latini Canto CIAMPOLO Circle Cocytus cried Dante Dante's death demon descend doth E'en e'er Ephialtes eyes face fear feet fire flame Florentine gainst gazed Geryon Ghibelline Guelfs Guide Guido da Montefeltro hand hast hath head hear heard heaven hell hence Inferno Italian lamenting Latian Leader literal look Lord Master mind mode mong ne'er neath nought o'er original pain passage passed Petrarch Phlegethon Phlegyas poem Poet Pope Nicholas III punished rendered replied rhyme rock Rossetti round seems seen serpent shade side sight sinners Sonnet soul speak sped speech spirit sweet tears tell tercet terza rima thee thine things thou art thou dost thou'lt thought tongue translation turned twere Twixt unto valley verse Virgil weep Whence Whereat Wherefore wind wont words
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Página 35 - In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word; and I well remember that, availing himself of the synonymes to the Homer of Didymus, he made us attempt to show, with regard to each, why it would not have answered the same purpose; and wherein consisted the peculiar fitness of the word in the original text.
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