 | Jonathan Rigdon - 1903 - 312 pagina’s
...face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 670. Selections from Gary's Dante's Inferno. i. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy...rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay II. Tet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. — Line 8.... | |
 | Howard Sandison - 1904 - 348 pagina’s
...more than oil, is rubbed off, and the lustrous gold lettering is revealed. THE DARK FOREST. 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... | |
 | George Tyrrell - 1905 - 394 pagina’s
...338 CCLXVI. MID-LIFE. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray." It was at the point of mid-life, that the poet found himself involved in the deepest obscurity, mental... | |
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - 1906 - 190 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. ' ' * If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the realm of imagination, strive to picture... | |
 | Watson Surr - 1907 - 240 pagina’s
...the introduction to the " Inferno." Readers of Dante will remember his famous prologue : — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy...dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death." «75 There was no gloom about this wood on the afternoon of our visit, but a bright sky, the fragrant... | |
 | Karl Hilty - 1907 - 288 pagina’s
..." and is in the same frame of mind in which Dante has his great poem begin with the words: " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray;" or in which St. Theresa says: " My soul was submerged in the dream of earthly things, but it has pleased... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1907 - 168 pagina’s
...years of his life to a poem that involved the whole sweep of the question of evil and its overcoming : I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." Milton's greatest song was Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1907 - 166 pagina’s
...years of his life to a poem that involved the whole sweep of the question of evil and its overcoming : I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.2 Milton's greatest song was Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree,... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - 562 pagina’s
...the greatest possible extent, continue to be preserved in the country. In the ancient style. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct.* — Gary. No feeling of loyalty and veneration can enter the breast of a man who is base by nature.... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pagina’s
...with the Italian poet himself. Feb. 22, 1805. (Vol. i. pp. v-viii.) [Inferno i. 1-27] In the mid way of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I entered it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dulness in that instant weigh'd... | |
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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... 
