The Inferno of Dante AlighieriW.E. Painter, 1843 - 285 pàgines |
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Pàgina 279 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Pàgina 271 - Now Athamas cries out, his reason fled, " Here, fellow-hunters, let the toils be spread. I saw a lioness, in quest of food, With her two young, run roaring in this wood.
Pàgina 273 - To impose on their belief, and Troy betray : Fixed on his aim, and obstinately bent To die undaunted, or to circumvent. About the captive, tides of Trojans flow ; All press to see, and some insult the foe. Now hear how well the Greeks their wiles...
Pàgina 229 - Condemn'd with ghosts in endless night to lie — Before I break the plighted faith I gave! No! he who had my vows, shall ever have; For, whom I lov'd on earth, I worship in the grave.
Pàgina 270 - No bed, no covering, can the wretches bear, But on the ground, exposed to open air. They lie, and hope to find a pleasing coolness there. The suffering earth, with that oppression cursed, Returns the heat which they imparted first.
Pàgina 272 - Go thou from me to fate, And to my father my foul deeds relate. Now die...
Pàgina 252 - Constantine, the two magic pillars of the spiritual and temporal monarchy of the popes. This memorable donation was introduced to the world by an epistle of...
Pàgina 243 - Ye princes, hear Your pleasing fortune, and dispel your fear. The fruitful isle of Crete, well known to fame, Sacred of old to Jove's imperial name, In the mid ocean lies, with large command, And on its plains a hundred cities stand. Another Ida rises there, and we From thence derive our Trojan ancestry.
Pàgina 247 - The horses started with a sudden bound, And flung the reins and chariot to the ground : The studded harness from their necks they broke, Here fell a wheel, and here a silver spoke, Here were the beam and axle torn away ; And, scattered o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay.
Pàgina 252 - According to the legend, the first of the Christian emperors was healed of the leprosy, and purified in the waters of baptism, by St. Silvester, the Roman bishop; and never was physician more gloriously recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West.