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ÆNEID angel art thou ascent asks Beatrice beautiful beginning blessed Cacciaguida called canto circle Classics for English Convito cries Dante crowd Crown 8vo Dante Alighieri Dante's dark descend divine Divine Comedy eager earth Edition English Readers eternal evil eyes face flame Florence Florentine gaze gentle Ghibelline glory glow grace Guelf Guido Cavalcanti hear heart heaven heavenly Hell holy horrible human J. G. LOCKHART JOHN GALT lady Latin light living look Malebolge mind miserable mortal moved mystic never noble o'er pain Paradise pass pause perceives pity poem poet poet's Provençal punishment Purgatory reach round rush says Dante seems shadow shining sight singing sinner smile song sonnet Sordello soul speak sphere spirits stands stars Statius strange suddenly sufferers sweet tears tell thee things thought tion torment turned verse Virgil Vita Nuova voice weeping WILLIAM BLACKWOOD wonder words wretched
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Page 133 - 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 45 - On that day which fulfilled the year since my lady had been made of the citizens of eternal life, remembering me of her as I sat alone, I betook myself to draw the resemblance of an angel upon certain tablets. And while I did thus, chancing to turn my head, I perceived that some were standing beside me to whom I should have given courteous welcome, and that they were observing what I did: also I learned afterwards that they had been there a while before I perceived them.
Page 43 - ... it produceth nine, as we manifestly perceive that three times three are nine. Thus, three being of itself the efficient of nine, and the Great Efficient of Miracles being of Himself Three Persons (to wit : the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit), which, being Three, are also One : — this lady was accompanied by the number nine to the end that men might clearly perceive her to be a nine, that is, a miracle, whose only root is the Holy Trinity.
Page 53 - Tant' e amara che poco e piu morte; ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai, diro de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte. [Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.