Dante, Six SermonsElkin Mathews, 1905 - 122 páginas |
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¹ Inferno ¹ Paradiso allegorical amongst angel Beatrice Beatrice Portinari Beatrice's beauty blessed blessedness Cacciaguida Charles of Valois Christ Church circle conception Convito Dante Alighieri death deeds deep desert Divine Comedy Divine Grace Divine philosophy e'en earth Elkin Mathews eternal exile eyes faith feel Florence gaze gentle Ghibellines glory glow grace Guelfs GUIDO DA MONTEFELTRO harmony Heaven heavenly Hell and Purgatory hope horror human Ibid ideal impenitence indignation Italy knew light lived lofty mediæval mighty misery moral never Papal Paradise passion peace piercing pity poem poet poet's political Pope Pope Boniface VIII presence Primal Love punishment purifying pain realise recognise repentant rise Rome round sinful sinners souls in Purgatory spirit Statius storm of passion strain suffering supreme sweet thee theology things thou thought toil tortures touched true truth turn utter Virgil vision Vita Nuova voice wisdom words wretched
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Página 97 - He who usurps upon the earth my place, my place. MY PLACE, which in the presence of the Son of God is vacant now, has made the city of my sepulture a sink of blood and filth, at which the rebel Satan, who erst fell from Heaven rejoices down in Hell.
Página 5 - Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Página 91 - As is he who dreaming seeth, and when the dream is gone the passion stamped remaineth, and nought else cometh to the mind again; even such am I; for almost wholly faileth me my vision, yet doth the sweetness that was born of it still drop within my heart.
Página 53 - Through me is the way into the doleful city; through me the way into the eternal pain; through me the way among the people lost. Justice moved my High Maker; Divine Power made me, Wisdom Supreme, and Primal Love. Before me were no things created, but eternal; and eternal I endure: leave all hope, ye that enter.
Página 20 - all things most dear—this the first arrow shot from exile's bow," in poverty and dependence his proud spirit must learn " how salt a taste cleaves to a patron's bread, how hard a path mounts and descends a patron's stair;" and, above all, his unsullied purity and patriotism must find itself forced into constant association or even alliance with selfish and personal ambition, or with tyranny, meanness, and duplicity.
Página 103 - Mobile, that he saw a single point of intensest light surrounded by iris rings, upon which points, said Beatrice, all Heaven and all nature hung.2 But now they have passed beyond all nine revolving heavens into the region of " pure light, light intellectual full of love, love of the true good full of joy, joy that transcends all sweetness.
Página 28 - A welcome to his countrymen to pay, But for the sweet sound of his country's name ; While now thy living ones are constant foes, And each one gnaws the other, even they Whom the same moat, the self-same walls enclose. Search, wretched one, thy sea-girt shores around ; Then inward turn to thine own breast, and see; If any part in joyous peace be found.. What boots it that Justinian's skill replaced The bit, if empty now the saddle be...
Página 101 - ... of Indus, and there is none to speak of Christ, or read or write of him. All this man's desires and acts are good, and without sin, as far as human eye can see, in deed or word. He dies unbaptised, without the faith. Where is that justice which condemns him 1 Where is his fault in not believing ? " Yes, they knew his doubt, but could not solve it. Their answer is essentially the same as Paul's : " Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God 1...
Página 37 - Dante's fair fame and honor, that will I accept with no lagging feet. If no such path leads back to Florence, then will I never enter Florence more. What then? May I not gaze upon the mirror of the sun and stars wherever I may be? Can I not ponder on the sweetest truths wherever I may be beneath the heaven, but I must first make me inglorious, nay infamous, before the people and the state of Florence? Nor shall I lack for bread.
Página 50 - Ibid, xviii. 103-136. tortures are only the background ; and as in the picture of a great artist, whether we can trace any special significance and appropriateness in the background or not, we always feel that it supports the true subject of the picture and never overpowers it, so it is here. Man as misusing his free will. This is the real subject of the Inferno. All else is accessory and subordinate.