Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300). A Collection of Lyrics, Volume 3

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ellis and White, 1874 - 468 páginas

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Página 73 - And therewithal such a bewilderment Possess'd me, that I shut mine eyes for peace ; And in my brain did cease Order of thought, and every healthful thing. Afterwards, wandering Amid a swarm of doubts that came and went, Some certain women's faces hurried by, And...
Página 109 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Página 31 - ... strong imagination) that I had nothing left for it but to do all his bidding continually. He oftentimes commanded me to seek if I might see this youngest of the Angels : wherefore I in my boyhood often went in search of her, and found her so noble and praiseworthy that certainly of her might have been said those words of the poet Homer, " She seemed not to be the daughter of a mortal man, but of God.
Página 73 - Then saw I many broken hinted sights In the uncertain state I stepp'd into. Meseem'd to be I know not in what place, Where ladies through the street, like mournful lights, Ran with loose hair, and eyes that frighten'd you By their own terror, and a pale amaze : The while, little by little, as I thought, The sun ceased, and the stars began to gather, And...
Página 65 - O women, help to praise her in somewise. Humbleness, and the hope that hopeth well, By speech of hers into the mind are brought, And who beholds is blessed oftenwhiles. The look she hath when she a little smiles Cannot be said, nor holden in the thought ; 'Tis such a new and gracious miracle.
Página 50 - And they were assembled around a gentlewoman who was given in marriage on that day; the custom of the city being that these should bear her company when she sat down for the first time at table in the house of her husband. Therefore I, as was my friend's pleasure, resolved to stay with him and do honour to those ladies. But as soon as I had thus resolved, I began to feel a faintness and a throbbing at my left side, which soon took possession of my whole body. Whereupon I remember that I covertly...
Página 161 - And still thy speech of me, heartfelt and kind, Had made me treasure up thy poetry. But now I dare not, for thine abject life, Make manifest that I approve thy rhymes ; Nor come I in such sort that thou mayst know. Ah ! prythee read this sonnet many times : So shall that evil one who bred this strife Be thrust from thy dishonoured soul and go.
Página 284 - SET Love in order, thou that lovest Me. Never was virtue out of order found ; And though I fill thy heart desirously. By thine own virtue I must keep My ground : When to My love thou dost bring charity, Even she must come with order girt and gown'd. Look how the trees are bound To order, bearing fruit ; And by one thing compute, In all things earthly, order's grace or gain. All earthly things I had the making of Were numbered and were measured then by Me ; And each was ordered to its end by Love,...
Página 260 - The low estimate expressed of him, as well as of Bonaggiunta and Guittone, by Dante (Purg. C. xxiv), must be understood as referring in great measure to their want of grammatical purity and nobility of style, as we may judge when the passage is taken in conjunction with the principles of the De Vulgari Eloquio.
Página 90 - Beatrice is gone up into high Heaven, The kingdom where the angels are at peace; And lives with them ; and to her friends is dead. Not by the frost of winter was she driven Away, like others; nor by summer-heats; But through a perfect gentleness, instead.

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