Review of The Shadow of Dante1872 - 71 pages |
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æsthetic allegorical already angel Aristotle beatitude Beatrice Beatrice Portinari beauty behold believe blessed Brunetto Latini Cacciaguida called Canzoni Christ Church Cimabue contemplation Convito Dante Alighieri Dante says Dante seems Dante tells Dante's dead delight desire Divina Commedia divine doctrine doubt eternal exile eyes faith feeling felicity flesh Florence genius Ghibelline gives grace Greek hath heart heaven hell higher highest hints Holy human ideal imagination Inferno intellectual intellectual virtues interpretation Italian judgment Lady light meaning mind Miss Rossetti Monarchia moral nature never NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW Pagan Paradiso pareglio passage passion perfect perhaps Philosophy poem poet poetry Purgatorio puts reason Roman Rome Saint Saint Paul seen sense seqq sonnet soul speaking speculation spiritual stars thee Theology things thou thought tion transhumanized true truth unity unto verse VIII Virgil virtue Vita Nuova vulgari Eloquio Wherefore whereof wholly wisdom XXVII XXXI
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Page 207 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars: Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen; Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
Page 168 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 195 - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Page 177 - SURELY VAIN ARE ALL MEN BY NATURE, WHO ARE IGNORANT OF God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster...
Page 161 - Nor prayer for inspiration me availed, By means of which in dreams and otherwise I called him back, so little did he heed them. So low he fell, that all appliances For his salvation were already short, Save showing him the people of perdition.
Page 208 - The man behind the verse is far greater than the verse itself, and the impulse he gives to what is deepest and most sacred in us, though we cannot always explain it, is none the less real and lasting.
Page 205 - Perhaps it seems little to say that Dante was the first great poet who ever made a poem wholly out of himself, but, rightly looked at, it implies a wonderful self-reliance and originality in his genius. His is the first keel that ever ventured into the silent sea of human consciousness to find a new world of poetry.
Page 150 - Dante himself had precisely this endowment, and in a very surprising degree. His genius enabled him to see and to show what he saw to others; his memory neither forgot nor forgave. Very hateful to his fervid heart and sincere mind would have been the modern theory which deals with sin as involuntary error...
Page 168 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Page 183 - To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend, A soul shall be for that than I more worthy; With her at my departure I will leave thee; Because that Emperor, who reigns above...