 | Dante Alighieri - 1853 - 1522 pagina’s
...that be shall then be conducted by Beatrice Into Paradise. lie follows the Roman pucL Is the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...of what .there good befell, All else will I relate discovcr'd there. How first I enter'd it I scarce can say, Soch sleepy dulness in that instant weigh'd... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pagina’s
...the whole nai " Ma per tratter del ben, ch' i' vi trovai, Dinb dell' altre cose, ch' io v ho scorte. Yet to discourse of what there good befell All else will I relate discovered there." — Ci It is next to impossible in such a poem to separate story from the allegorical interpretation.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pagina’s
...shall then be conducted by his love, Beatrice, into Paradise. The poem opens as follows : — " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy...of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there: How first I enter'd it, I scarce can say, Such sleepy dullness in that instant weigh'd... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1896 - 678 pagina’s
...exaggeration be likened to Dante when he found himself wandering in the mazes of the gloomy wood : " Even to tell It were no easy task, how savage, wild That forest."* * Inferno, Cant. I, 3, Gary's Translation. If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pagina’s
...these haunts of barbarous superstition O'ercome me thus ? I scorn them, yet they awe me. 415. In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy...from death ; Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd it I scarce can say, Such sleepy... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - 1856 - 412 pagina’s
...year of the poet's age, AD 1300, and to have occupied three days. The poem opens as follows. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. How first I entered it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dulness in that instant weighed My senses down,... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1860 - 266 pagina’s
...poets, and transmitted by them to Dante, Chaucer, etc. /-.'.//. The Divine Comedy opens thus : ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood ; savage, wild That forest, and robust and rough its growth.' (Gary's Translation.) And Chaucer, '... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1864 - 360 pagina’s
...vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura Che la diritta via era smarrita." DANTE — Inferno. " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CAKY. Reserving for the next epoch of my "Working Life" the recital of some of its passages in my vocation... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1864 - 266 pagina’s
...medieval poets, and transmitted by them to Dante, Chaucer, etc. Ey The Divine Comedy opens thus : ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood; savage, wild That forest, and robust and rough its growth.' (Cary's Translation.) And Chaucer, ' The... | |
 | Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 436 pagina’s
...Valois, and Robert of Anjou ; and of the papacy and Rome under Boniface VIII. and his successors. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. * * * * * How first I entered it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dulness in that instant weighed My senses... | |
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IN the midway * of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct ; and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in... 
