...framed my speech: " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...affection urged. " O gracious creature and benign ! who go'st Visiting, through this element obscure, Us, who the world with bloody stain imbrued; If, for...

...framed my speech : " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...affection urged. " O gracious creature and benign ! who go'st Visiting, through this element obscure, Us, who the world with bloody stain imbrued; If, for...

...particular approached to him, the unfortunate lovers of Rimini : — 'As doves, By fond desire incited, on wide wings, And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along : ' etc.3 Innumerable images of this kind are scattered throughout; the following, towards the close...

...framed my speech : " O wearied spirits ! come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd. " As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...They, through the ill air speeding : with such force 1 Semiramis was the mythical Queen of Assyria or Babylonia, which Dante apparently confuses with Babylon...

...science and every phase of external nature. He is particularly fond of the sea and of birds : — • As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...Cleave the air, wafted by their will along, Thus issued those dames and knights of ancient days. There is another very beautiful bird simile, of which many...

...before the wind," as the wind swayed them towards Virgil and himself the Florentine addressed them : " ' O wearied spirits! come, and hold discourse With us,...through the ill air speeding ; with such force My cry prevailed, by strong affection urged. ' O gracious creature and benign ! who go'st Visiting, through...

...framed my speech : "O wearied spirits ! Come, and hold discourse With us, if by none else restrain'd." As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm, to their sweet nest returning home, 15 Cleave the air, wafted by their will along ; Thus issued, from that troop where Dido ranks, They,...

...the supreme poet of material and tangible things which illustrate by comparison the things imagined: As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...where Dido ranks, They, through the ill air speeding. (Carey's translation of Dante's Inferno, Canto V.) And as a man with difficult short breath Forespent...

...the supreme poet of material and tangible things which illustrate by comparison the things imagined: As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And firm to their sweet nest returning home, Cloavo the air, wafted by their will along; Thus issued from that troop where Dido ranks, Tlu\y, through...

...which the tragedy of Francesca da Rimini and her lover, Paolo, is recited. He beholds the unhappy pair: As doves By fond desire invited, on wide wings And...home, Cleave the air, wafted by their will along. The poet's eye was, indeed, exceptionally keen for the life and movement of birds. He sees the rooks...