The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2Fields, Osgood, 1870 |
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Æneid Anagni angel appeared arms ascend battle Beatrice beautiful behold Boniface Brunetto Latini Cæsar called CANTO chariot Charles Charles of Anjou Charles of Valois Christ Christian Church Cimabue circle color Conradin Corso Donati Dante Dante's daughter death delight divine dost doth earth Emperor eternal eyes face father feet fire Florence Florentine flowers forest Forlì Frederick the Second Ghibelline Ghino Ghino di Tacco Giotto gold Guido hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven holy honor Italian Italy king lady light living look Lord Messer Milton mind mountain nature never night noble Ovid Paradise Podestà poem poet Pope Provençal punishment Purgatory river Rome round shade shalt Siena sight singing song Sordello soul speak spirit stars Statius sweet thee thine things thou tree turned Tuscany unto Virgil Virgilius virtue weeping words
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Page 269 - And when they saw him they were amazed : and his mother said unto him son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Page 351 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 339 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 213 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 373 - A LITTLE while, and ye shall not see me : and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
Page 270 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Page 221 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay.
Page 341 - Our death, the Tree of Knowledge, grew fast by — Knowledge of good, bought dear by knowing ill. Southward through Eden went a river large, Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill...
Page 352 - And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment ; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Page 285 - My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.