The Vision, Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

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Bell and Daldy, 1865 - 188 páginas

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Página 36 - itself there is neither pain nor bitterness; but, as ripe fruit is lightly and without violence loosened from its branch so our soul without grieving departs from the body in which it hath been." So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with case
Página 111 - in all places one. or utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversity of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's word
Página 20 - I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and
Página 104 - Thus Milton:— What surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms. As shall express them best. PL bv 575. These passages, rightly considered, may tend to remove the scruples of some, who are offended by
Página 24 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass : " His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of
Página 11 - 242 : Noise, other than the sound of dance or song, Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. « Portal.] " Porta délia fede." This was an alteration made in the text by the Academicians della Crusca, on the authority, as it would appear, of only two MSS. The other reading is
Página 8 - And art thou then that Virgil, that well-spring, From which such copious floods of eloquence Have issued ?" I with front abash'd replied. " Glory and light of all the tuneful train ! May it avail me, that I long with zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense Have conn'd it o'er. My master thou, and guide
Página 93 - wander where thou wilt. Expect no more Sanction of warning voice or sign from me, Free of thy own arbitrement to chuse, Discreet, judicious. To distrust thy sense Were henceforth error. I invest thee then With crown and mitre, sovereign o'er thyself." CANTO XXVIII. ARGUMENT. Dante wanders through the forest of the terrestrial Paradise, till
Página 42 - Nor the next night, until another sun Came out upon the world. When a faint beam Had to our doleful prison made its way, And in four countenances I descried The image of my own, on cither hand Through agony I bit ; and they, who thought I did it through desire of feeding, rose O
Página 112 - And in his father's sight : from day to day, Then loved her more devoutly. She, bereaved Of her first husband ', slighted and obscure, Thousand and hundred years and more, remain'd Without a single suitor, till he came. Nor aught avail'd, that, with Amyclas 2 , she Was found unmoved at rumour of his voice,

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