The Commedia and Canzoniere ...Isbister, 1887 |
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angels Aquinas Summ BALLATA bear beatific vision Beatrice Beatrice's beauty blest Boniface VIII bright Cacciaguida CANTO Canz CANZONE Charles Martel Charles of Valois Christ Church circle clear Commedia Comp Conv Dante Dante's death desire Divine doth e'en earth Emperor Empyrean eternal eyes fair faith Florence Fraticelli gaze Ghibellines give glory glow God's grace Guido Cavalcanti hath heart Heaven holy hope king Lady light look mediæval Mopsus Naples nature o'er Paradise pass Piccarda poem poet poet's Pope praise prayer Primum Mobile probably Provençal Purg Ravenna rays Rome round saints Scart seems seen shine smile song SONNET soul spake speak speech sphere spirit stars sweet tell thee thine things thou dost thought Trajan true truth turned virtue vision whence Wherefore Wisdom words xxii xxxiii
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Page 195 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for ! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever : a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 497 - A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er; Far off the noises of the world retreat; The loud vociferations of the street Become an undistinguishable roar.
Page 463 - I think it is the mournfulest face that ever was painted from reality; an altogether tragic, heartaffecting face. There is in it, as foundation of it, the softness, tenderness, gentle affection as of a child ; but all this is as if congealed into sharp contradiction, into abnegation, isolation, proud hopeless pain.
Page 463 - To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known victory which is also deathless...
Page 428 - Thus doing, your name shall flourish in the printers' shops; thus doing, you shall be of kin to many a poetical preface; thus doing, you shall be most fair, most rich, most wise, most all; you shall dwell upon superlatives. Thus doing, though you be libertino patre natus, you shall suddenly grow Herculea proles, Si quid mea carmina possunt.
Page 430 - Phoebus' quire, That tunest their happiest lines in hymn or story. Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing, Met in the milder shades of purgatory.
Page 464 - Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain ? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort, in fact, as of a captive struggling to free himself: that is Thought. In all ways we are "to become perfect through suffering.
Page 464 - Paradiso, look out on one another like compartments of a great edifice ; a great supernatural world-cathedral, piled up there, stern, solemn, awful; Dante's World of Souls! It is, at bottom, the sincerest of all Poems; sincerity, here too, we find to be the measure of worth. It came deep out of the author's heart of hearts; and it goes deep, and through long generations, into ours. The people of Verona, when they saw him on the streets, used to say, "Eccovi I...
Page 463 - ... his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and lifelong unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection all converted into indignation : an implacable indignation ; slow, equable, silent, like that of a god ! The eye too, it...