 | Dante Alighieri - 1850 - 656 pàgines
...Beatrice into Paradise. He fullows the Roman poet. IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found rne in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct...forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember1 only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there... | |
 | Clara Harrington (fict.name.) - 1852 - 962 pàgines
...he would not let them rest until a new house was found for them such as he desired. CHAPTER III. " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...were no easy task, how savage wild, That forest, how monstrous, and how rough oi growth, Which to remember only, my dismay, Renews, in bitterness, not far... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1896 - 678 pàgines
...exaggeration be likened to Dante when he found himself wandering in the mazes of the gloomy wood : " Even to tell It were no easy task, how savage, wild That forest."* * Inferno, Cant. I, 3, Gary's Translation. If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...Why do these haunts of barbarous superstition O'ercome me thus ? I scorn them, yet they awe me. 415. In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in...my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death ; Tet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1864 - 266 pàgines
...medieval poets, and transmitted by them to Dante, Chaucer, etc. Ey The Divine Comedy opens thus : ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood; savage, wild That forest, and robust and rough its growth.' (Cary's Translation.) And Chaucer, ' The... | |
 | Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 442 pàgines
...of Valois, and Robert of Anjou ; and of the papacy and Rome under Boniface VIII. and his successors. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. * * * * * How first I entered it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dulness in that instant weighed My senses... | |
 | John Duns - 1899 - 330 pàgines
...few, alas ! compared with those who could not : — " In midway of this our mortal life I found one in a gloomy wood astray, Gone from the path direct...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how rohuat and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death."... | |
 | 1866 - 1004 pàgines
...darkling recesses of the mysterious wood ; and we seem to hear the low utterance of the very words — In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray. There is a bright light upon a rugged bank, out of which break forth, half-discovering themselves,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1873 - 364 pàgines
...nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura Che la diritta via era smarrita. " DANTE — Inferno. " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in...a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my " Working Life " the recital of some of its passages in my... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 516 pàgines
...nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura • Che la diritta via era smarrita. " DANTE — Inferno. " In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in...a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct." CART. Reserving for the next epoch of my "Working Life " the recital of some of its passages in my... | |
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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in... 
