Divine ComedyClarendon Press, 1904 - 447 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Angel anon art thou ascend Beatrice began beheld beneath bethink thee blessed bolgia CANTO cause Charles of Anjou Christ Ciampolo Circle Cornice Dante Dante's death descend desire divine doth earth erewhile eternal face father flame Florence gazing Ghibelline God's grace Guelfs hand haply hath heard heart Heaven Hell holy Lady Leader light look MALEBOLGE Master methought Mountain nature pass perceived Philip the Fair Phlegethon Pistoia Poet Primum Mobile Purgatory rays reached reason replied revealed revolve round saintly shade shalt side sight smile soon Sordello soul spake speak spheres spirits stars Statius sweet tears tell thine eyes thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thou mayst thou seest thou wilt thought thyself TOZER truth turned Tuscany upward uttered Virgil voice ween whence wherefore whereof whereupon wherewith wings wont words
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Página 445 - I consumed therein! 1 saw that in its depth far down is lying Bound up with love together in one volume, What through the universe in leaves is scattered; Substance, and accident, and their operations, All interfused together in such wise That what I speak of is one simple light.
Página 424 - ... one grain for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on to sixtyfour. This the king readily granted ; but when the amount was reckoned up, he had not wheat enough in his whole kingdom to pay it.
Página 23 - Thine agonies, Francesca, Sad and compassionate to weeping make me. But tell me, at the time of those sweet sighs, By what and in what manner Love conceded, That you should know your dubious desires?
Página 12 - And I, who looked, saw an ensign, which whirling ran so quickly that it seemed to scorn all pause; and behind it came so long a train of people, that I should never have believed death had undone so many. After I had recognised some amongst them, I saw and knew the shadow of him who from cowardice made the great refusal.
Página 12 - They share this abode with the angels "who were not rebels, nor were faithful to God, but were for themselves." They exemplify almost perfectly the secular attitude which dominates the modern world. Their grief, according to Dante, arises from the fact that they "have no hope of death; and their blind life is so debased, that they are envious of every other lot.
Página 431 - I yield me vanquisht at this pass supreme; Comic or tragic poet overborne Was never thus by crisis of his theme. For, as to dazzled sight the sun of morn, So doth her sweet remembered smile erase My memory, of its very self forlorn. From the first day when I beheld her face In this life, even until the present viewing, My song yet never faltered on her trace; But now I must give over from pursuing Her beauty in these cadences of mine, Like every artist taskt beyond his doing.
Página 155 - Then on each side of it appeared to me a something white; and from beneath it, little by little, another whiteness came forth. My Master yet did speak no word, until the first whitenesses appeared as wings; then, when well he knew the pilot, he cried: "Bend, bend thy knees; behold the Angel of God: fold thy hands: henceforth shalt thou see such ministers. Look how he scorns all human instruments, so that oar he wills not, nor other sail than his wings, between shores so distant. See how he has them...
Página 16 - Israel with his father and with his offspring, and with Rachel, for whom he did so much, and many others; and He made them blessed: and I would have thee know that before these, human spirits were not saved.
Página 41 - If through this blind Prison thou goest by loftiness of genius, Where is my son? and why is he not with thee?" And I to him: "I come not of myself; He who is waiting yonder leads me here, Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had.
Página 257 - ... Statius (the personification of human philosophy enlightened by divine revelation) is made to speak to the poet thus : If thy mind, my son, gives due heed to my words and takes them home, they will elucidate the question thou dost ask. Perfect blood which is in no case drawn from the thirsty veins, but which remains behind like food that is removed from table, receives in the heart informing power for all the members of the human body, like the other blood which courses through the veins in order...