Dante, the Poet Illustrated Out of the PoemCentury Company, 1884 - 8 páginas |
Termos e frases comuns
according actor anguish arms Arno ascendant atrice banished beatitude beautiful became behold beloved Black Boccaccio bore broils Cacciaguida canto CENTURY Charles of Valois Christ citizen Corso Donati countenance Dante mounted Dante's birth death of Beatrice discourse Divina Commedia Divine Comedy doth elder Alighieri Elisei Emperor Conrad enter eternal exile eyes faction faith father field Florence Florentine gate Gemma Ghibelline God's grief Guelph Guido HARVARD COLLEGE hath heart heaven Hell honorable hope hopeless Imperial Inferno Italy knight lady Leah Lear less look lover Lucifer luster mankind ment mortal noble NUMBER OVERDUE FEE painless Papalist Paradise party peace permanent pilgrims poem poet poet's political praise Proclaimeth Purgatory Ravenna readers returned Roman Rossetti shade Shadow of Dante sonal souls spirit sufficed things Thomas Aquinas tinari tion translation Tuscan valga veiled Virgil virtue Vita Nuova well-nigh Whites wife wisdom woman words wrought
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