A Shadow of Dante: Being an Essay Towards Studying Himself, His World and His PilgrimageRivingtons, 1871 - 296 pages |
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Shadow of Dante: Being an Essay Towards Studying World, and His Pilgrimage ... Maria Francesca Rossetti No preview available - 2015 |
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Æneid Æther already Angels answered appeared ascent Beatrice beautiful began behold Blessed Cacciaguida Charles of Anjou Christ Circle Cocytus Convito creatures Dante Dante's death descended desire didst discern Divine dost doth earth Emperor Empyrean eternal evil eyes face faith father feet fire flame Florence Fraticelli gaze Geryon glory grace Guido heard Heaven Hell hemisphere holy human intellect Justice Lady light living look Lord MARIA FRANCESCA ROSSETTI marvellous master mind mortal mount moved nature o'er Paradise pass Penitents Phlegethon Piccarda Pier delle Vigne Pilgrims pleasure Poets Pope Boniface VIII Primum Mobile Purgatory rays round Saints seemed seen Shade sight sins smile soon Sordello soul speak Sphere spirit star Statius sweet Terrace thee thine things thou hast thou shalt thyself truth turned Ugolino della Gherardesca unto upward Virgil Virgilius virtue vision voice weeping Whence Wherefore wherein wholly words
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Page 182 - Such as from branch to branch goes gathering on Through the pine forest on the shore of Chiassi, » When Eolus unlooses the Sirocco. Already my slow steps had carried me Into the ancient wood so far, that I Could not perceive where I had entered it.
Page 180 - Take thine own pleasure for thy guide henceforth ; Beyond the steep ways and the narrow art thou. Behold the sun, that shines upon thy forehead ; Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs Which of itself alone this land produces.
Page 259 - The ancient Scriptures and the new The mark establish, and this shows it me, Of all the souls whom God hath made his friends. Isaiah saith, that each one garmented In his own land shall be with twofold garments, And his own land is this delightful life. Thy brother, too, far more explicitly, There where he treateth of the robes of white, This revelation manifests to us.
Page 261 - Which have the power to turn the heart to God Unto my charity have been concurrent. The being of the world, and my own being, The death which He endured that I may live, And that which all the faithful hope, as I do, With the forementioned vivid consciousness Have drawn me from the sea of love perverse, And of the right have placed me on the shore. The leaves, wherewith embowered is all the garden Of the Eternal Gardener, do I love As much as he has granted them of good.
Page 238 - Thou shalt abandon everything beloved » Most tenderly, and this the arrow is Which first the bow of banishment shoots forth. Thou shalt have proof how savoreth of salt The bread of others, and how hard a road The going down and up another's stairs.
Page 259 - Sudden and frequent, in the guise of lightning; Then breathed: "The love wherewith I am inflamed Towards the virtue still which followed me Unto the palm and issue of the field, Wills that I breathe to thee that thou delight In her; and grateful to me is thy telling Whatever things Hope promises to thee.
Page 273 - IN fashion then as of a snow-white rose Displayed itself to me the saintly host, Whom Christ in his own blood had made his bride, But the other host, that flying sees and sings The glory of Him who doth...
Page 270 - And light I saw in fashion of a river Fulvid with its effulgence, 'twixt two banks Depicted with an admirable Spring. Out of this river issued living sparks, And on all sides sank down into the flowers, Like unto rubies that are set in gold; And then, as if inebriate with the odours, They plunged again into the wondrous torrent, And as one entered issued forth another. "The high desire, that now inflames and moves thee To have intelligence of what thou seest, Pleaseth me all the more, the more it...
Page 283 - O how all speech is feeble and falls short Of my conceit, and this to what I saw Is such, 'tis not enough to call it little ! O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest, Sole knowest thyself, and, known unto thyself And knowing, lovest and smilest on thyself!
Page 183 - Singing and culling floweret after floweret, With which her pathway was all painted over, "Ah, beauteous lady, who in rays of love Dost warm thyself, if I may trust to looks, Which the heart's witnesses are wont to be, May the desire come unto thee to draw Near to this river's bank," I said to her, "So much that I may hear what thou art singing.