Annual Report of the Dante Society

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J.W. Wilson, 1882
 

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Página 21 - The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters : but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Página 19 - Society offers an Annual Prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay by a student in any department of the University, or by a graduate of not more than three years' standing, on a subject drawn from the Life or Works of Dante. The competition is open to students and graduates of similar standing of any college or university in the United States.
Página 9 - For, if we inspect the letter alone, the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt in the time of Moses is presented to us ; if the allegory, our redemption wrought by Christ ; if the moral sense, the conversion of the soul from the grief and misery of sin to the state of grace...
Página 27 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Página 23 - DANTE non potè tenere il proposito suo dell' aspettare grazia ; ma levatosi coll' animo altiero , cominciò a dir male di quelli che reggevano la Terra, appellandoli scellerati e cattivi, e minacciando loro la debita vendetta per la potenza dell...
Página 3 - ... understanding of Dante as a poet than any other of his works. It shows him (and that in the midst of affairs demanding practical ability and presence of mind) capable of a depth of contemplative abstraction, equalling that of a Soofi who has passed the fourth step of initiation. It enables us in some sort to see how, from being the slave of his imaginative faculty, he rose by self-culture and force of will to that mastery of it which is art.
Página 22 - Carlo grande sdegno di questa richiesta e promessa da loro fatta. Dante in questo tempo non era in Firenze, ma era a Roma, mandato poco avanti ambasciadore al Papa per offerire la concordia e la pace de...
Página 3 - ... substances. It traces with exquisite unconsciousness the gradual but certain steps by which memory and imagination transubstantiated the woman of flesh and blood into a holy ideal, combining in one radiant symbol of sorrow and hope that faith which is the instinctive refuge of unavailing regret, that grace of God which higher natures learn to find in the trial which passeth all understanding, and that perfect womanhood, the dream of youth and the memory of maturity, which beckons toward the forever...

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