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... death is also certain . The loss of her father , on the 31st of December , 1289 , was bitterly deplored by Beatrice , and Dante accounts for it by the remark , " Questa donna fosse in altissimo grado di bontà " -a saint on earth . His ...
... death is also certain . The loss of her father , on the 31st of December , 1289 , was bitterly deplored by Beatrice , and Dante accounts for it by the remark , " Questa donna fosse in altissimo grado di bontà " -a saint on earth . His ...
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... death into an enthusiastic veneration of her virtues ; in the language of the father , St. Augustin , through whom the scholars of that age imbibed the philosophy of Plato , Dante learnt amare in creatura creatorem et in factura ...
... death into an enthusiastic veneration of her virtues ; in the language of the father , St. Augustin , through whom the scholars of that age imbibed the philosophy of Plato , Dante learnt amare in creatura creatorem et in factura ...
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... death : Gentle , obedient , alive to shame , In early age is seen ; Careful the frame in beauty to improve , And all accomplishments.- Temperate and bold , in youthful years , and full Of love and courtesy , and thirst of fame , Placing ...
... death : Gentle , obedient , alive to shame , In early age is seen ; Careful the frame in beauty to improve , And all accomplishments.- Temperate and bold , in youthful years , and full Of love and courtesy , and thirst of fame , Placing ...
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... death of Clement , to concur in electing an Italian Pope.§ In a letter , of which the original Latin has been recently discovered , and which is ad- dressed to the people and princes of Italy , we find him thus ex- horting them to ...
... death of Clement , to concur in electing an Italian Pope.§ In a letter , of which the original Latin has been recently discovered , and which is ad- dressed to the people and princes of Italy , we find him thus ex- horting them to ...
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... death of their uncle , the before - mentioned Count Alessandro . The date must be between 1308 and 1311. Dante speaks of Alessandro in terms of the highest encomium , as also his family , which he terms the most powerful house in ...
... death of their uncle , the before - mentioned Count Alessandro . The date must be between 1308 and 1311. Dante speaks of Alessandro in terms of the highest encomium , as also his family , which he terms the most powerful house in ...
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Page 206 - Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Page 206 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 205 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 26 - 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.
Page 205 - Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments — Myself not least, but...
Page 24 - Nonne triumphales melius pexare capillos et patrio, redeam si quando, abscondere canos fronde sub inserta solitum flavescere Sarno...
Page 12 - 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!
Page 94 - Che dall' un lato tutti hanno la fronte Verso '1 castello, e vanno a santo Pietro : Dall' altra sponda vanno verso '1 monte.
Page 206 - Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Page 206 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...