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Pagina 2
... tion was at first nothing but admirable , securing to brain its legiti- mate influence over brawn . The latter has begun its revolt , but whether it will succeed better in its attempt to restore medieval methods than the barons in ...
... tion was at first nothing but admirable , securing to brain its legiti- mate influence over brawn . The latter has begun its revolt , but whether it will succeed better in its attempt to restore medieval methods than the barons in ...
Pagina 17
... tion : - The rights of Monarchy , the Heavens , the Stream of Fire , the Pit , In vision seen , I sang as far as to the Fates seemed fit ; But since my soul , an alien here , hath flown to nobler wars , And , happier now , hath gone to ...
... tion : - The rights of Monarchy , the Heavens , the Stream of Fire , the Pit , In vision seen , I sang as far as to the Fates seemed fit ; But since my soul , an alien here , hath flown to nobler wars , And , happier now , hath gone to ...
Pagina 20
... tion the poet himself seems to prophesy , ‡ and against whose election he had endeavored to persuade the car dinals , in a vehement letter . In 1350 the republic of Florence voted the sum of ten golden florins to be paid by the hands of ...
... tion the poet himself seems to prophesy , ‡ and against whose election he had endeavored to persuade the car dinals , in a vehement letter . In 1350 the republic of Florence voted the sum of ten golden florins to be paid by the hands of ...
Pagina 25
... the Inferno , and it is certain that Sir John Harrington had . See the preface to his transla- tion of the Orlando Furioso . † Second edition , 1800 . that the veneration of Dantophilists for their master is that 2 DANTE . 25.
... the Inferno , and it is certain that Sir John Harrington had . See the preface to his transla- tion of the Orlando Furioso . † Second edition , 1800 . that the veneration of Dantophilists for their master is that 2 DANTE . 25.
Pagina 36
... hardly yet drawn between the clerk and the possessor of supernatural powers ; it was with the next genera- tion , with the elegant Petrarch , even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio , that the purely literary life 36 DANTE .
... hardly yet drawn between the clerk and the possessor of supernatural powers ; it was with the next genera- tion , with the elegant Petrarch , even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio , that the purely literary life 36 DANTE .
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Populaire passages
Pagina 296 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Pagina 73 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Pagina 275 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Pagina 314 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Pagina 225 - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...
Pagina 73 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened : professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Pagina 300 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Pagina 145 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 280 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Pagina 71 - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.