A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1J. Murray, 1822 - 499 páginas |
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... verses ( which hitherto passed for nonsense ) and of many words from the same sources ( whose meanings , as well as roots , were never before ascertained ) renders this comment richer than any Italian one ; nor is there vanity in my ...
... verses ( which hitherto passed for nonsense ) and of many words from the same sources ( whose meanings , as well as roots , were never before ascertained ) renders this comment richer than any Italian one ; nor is there vanity in my ...
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... verse : so that he had acquired high literary fame before commencing his great poem , THE DIVINE COMEDY . This he began between twenty and thirty , and had scarcely finished when he died : so it occupied above twenty years in the ...
... verse : so that he had acquired high literary fame before commencing his great poem , THE DIVINE COMEDY . This he began between twenty and thirty , and had scarcely finished when he died : so it occupied above twenty years in the ...
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... verse . The one which least dissatisfies me , is the Latin version of Carlo D'Aquino . In English I am acquainted with two : although I did not know any thing of the existence of either , until very lately . With regard to one of them ...
... verse . The one which least dissatisfies me , is the Latin version of Carlo D'Aquino . In English I am acquainted with two : although I did not know any thing of the existence of either , until very lately . With regard to one of them ...
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... verse ( versi sciolti ) existed in Italian , though both now do ; and Cesarotti , Alfieri , Parini , Bettinelli , etc. prove , that the latter is no less adapted to the genius of the language , than the former . Dante then might just as ...
... verse ( versi sciolti ) existed in Italian , though both now do ; and Cesarotti , Alfieri , Parini , Bettinelli , etc. prove , that the latter is no less adapted to the genius of the language , than the former . Dante then might just as ...
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... verse in ours ; and that he would choose in English , the metre most entirely dissimilar to the one he liked best in ... verses , having never seen them . But there is a far more an- cient and higher authority for English terza ri- ma ...
... verse in ours ; and that he would choose in English , the metre most entirely dissimilar to the one he liked best in ... verses , having never seen them . But there is a far more an- cient and higher authority for English terza ri- ma ...
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