An English Commentary on Dante's Divina CommediaClarendon Press, 1901 - 628 pages |
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according altro angels Aquinas Aristotle ascend Beatrice Blessed bolgia Brunetto Latini Cacciaguida CANTO cause Charles of Anjou Christ Church Circle consequently Conv Cornice corresponding Dante Dante's death derived described desire divine dost eagle earth Empyrean explained expression eyes Florence Florentine foll follows Ghibelline God's Guelfs Guido Heaven Hell implies Inferno influence intended latter light lines Lucan Malebolge meaning meant mentioned mind moon Mountain of Purgatory movement nature note on Inf note on Purg object Ovid Paradise pass person Phlegethon poem Poets present passage Primum Mobile probably proceeds punishment Purg Purgatory referred regarded represents Roman says sense sight signifies soul speaking spheres spirits spoken stars Statius story tercets thee thou TOZER viii Villani Virg Virgil virtue Vulg word Wört xvii xxii xxiv xxxiii
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Page 620 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 131 - Non fruge neque herbis, Sed turis lacrimis et suco vivit amomi. Haec ubi quinque suae complevit saecula vitae, Ilicet in ramis tremulaeque cacumine palmae Unguibus et puro nidum sibi construit ore. Quo simul ac casias et nardi lenis aristas Quassaque cum fulva substravit cinnama murra, Se super imponit finitque in odoribus aevum.
Page 264 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 27 - ... oblectasset occideret, tandem filio flagitiose concepto, impie exposito, inceste cognito privatam ignominiam publico scelere obtexit. praecepit enim, ut inter parentes ac filios nulla delata reverentia naturae de coniugiis adpetendis ut cuique libitum esset liberum fieret.
Page 477 - Behold, I have done according to thy words : lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Page 578 - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 253 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 330 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 364 - For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Page 584 - And God spake unto Moses and said unto him, I am Jehovah : and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by My Name Jehovah was I not known to them.