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... Boniface VIII . , 303. - Dante in Exile , 304. - Can Grande , the Veltro , and the Dux , 308. - Dante in Ravenna , 312. - Death and Bu- rial , 313. - Posthumous Fame , 314. - The Sixth Centenary of Dante's Birth , 315. - Character and ...
... Boniface VIII . , 303. - Dante in Exile , 304. - Can Grande , the Veltro , and the Dux , 308. - Dante in Ravenna , 312. - Death and Bu- rial , 313. - Posthumous Fame , 314. - The Sixth Centenary of Dante's Birth , 315. - Character and ...
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... Boniface VIII . , who punished him by excommunication and hard im- prisonment . When Boniface once passing by his prison asked him when he expected to get out , Jacopone foretold his future fate by the prompt reply , " When you will get ...
... Boniface VIII . , who punished him by excommunication and hard im- prisonment . When Boniface once passing by his prison asked him when he expected to get out , Jacopone foretold his future fate by the prompt reply , " When you will get ...
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... ) , the conflict of Boniface VIII . with Philip the Fair ; the beginning of the Babylonian exile of the papacy ( 1309-1370 ) ; the suppression of the Templars ( 1312 ) ; the birth of Petrarca ( 1304 DANTE ALIGHIERI . 285.
... ) , the conflict of Boniface VIII . with Philip the Fair ; the beginning of the Babylonian exile of the papacy ( 1309-1370 ) ; the suppression of the Templars ( 1312 ) ; the birth of Petrarca ( 1304 DANTE ALIGHIERI . 285.
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... Boniface VIII . , who ascended the chair of St. Peter in 1294 , and celebrated the first papal Jubilee in 1300 , 1 This calculation has been made by Ferrari , Histoire des révolutions d ' Italie , ou Guelfes et Ghibelins , Paris , 1858 ...
... Boniface VIII . , who ascended the chair of St. Peter in 1294 , and celebrated the first papal Jubilee in 1300 , 1 This calculation has been made by Ferrari , Histoire des révolutions d ' Italie , ou Guelfes et Ghibelins , Paris , 1858 ...
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... Boniface VIII . interfered with the government of Florence , and threw all his influence in favor of the Neri and Guelfs . Dante and his five obscure colleagues acted with strict impar- tiality , and banished the leaders of both ...
... Boniface VIII . interfered with the government of Florence , and threw all his influence in favor of the Neri and Guelfs . Dante and his five obscure colleagues acted with strict impar- tiality , and banished the leaders of both ...
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Page 86 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 38 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 49 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 40 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted— nevermore!
Page 85 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 16 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 378 - Christ will come when a great multitude which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 373 - PER me si va nella città dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore : Fecemi la divina potestate, La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro : Lasciate ogni speranza, voi eh' entrate ! Queste parole di colore oscuro Vid' io scritte al sommo d' una porta : Perch' io : Maestro, il senso lor m
Page 98 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 75 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...