A Brief Notice of Some Recent Researches Respecting Dante Alighieri

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Cochran, 1844 - Počet stran: 55
 

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Strana 25 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Strana 11 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Strana 6 - Hadst not been driven forth; for in my mind Is fix'd, and now strikes full upon my heart, The dear, benign, paternal image, such As thine was, when so lately thou didst teach me The way for man to win eternity : And how I prized the lesson, it behoves, That, long as life endures, my tongue should speak.
Strana 32 - Yet if their deeper sense he inly weighed, And the dim veil, with which from common view Their fairer parts are hid, aside be laid, Perhaps not vain they may appear to you.
Strana 25 - In secret hides it not ; But soon as to its earthly mate espoused, Displays it until death." * The immortal beauty — that is, the eternal love — of which Shakespeare sings, in renewing itself in " love's fresh case " takes to itself a form or body through which it may give to itself visible expression in
Strana iii - Come la fronda, che flette la cima Nel transito del vento, e poi si leva, Per la propria virtù, che la sublima: Fec' io in tanto , in quanto ella diceva , Stupendo , e poi mi rifece sicuro Un disio di parlare, ond...
Strana 26 - To hear and talk of others' valorous deeds.* Last in the fourth and closing scene of life, To God is re-espoused, Contemplating the end which is at hand, And thanks returning for departed years, Reflect now how the many are deceived. "f With respect to the minor poems of Dante, Mr. Bruce Whyte has dismissed them with the assertion that they "sentent la lampe ;" but surely the easy flow of many of those canzoni, and of Mr.
Strana 8 - I cannot conclude without adding, that for a Government which has paid off its debts of two wars with the largest maritime Power of Europe, and now owing a debt which is almost next to nothing, when compared with its boundless resources — a Government the strongest in the world, because emanating from the popular will, and firmly rooted in the affections of a great and free people...
Strana 16 - The pathetic associations of banishment, the same in all ages to lovers of home and country, have been commemorated for us by the most illustrious exile of his time: — Tu lascerai ogni cosa diletta Piii caramente; e questo e quello strale Che 1' arco dell
Strana 23 - Nonne triumphales melius pexare capillos et patrio redeam si quando abscondere canos fronde sub inserta solitum flavescere Sarno...

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