 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...  The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian - Стр. 131842Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1905 - Страниц: 594
...not a dream. He was wide awake (in this, as in so much else, an exception and a protest), when — In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood. The Man. is suddenly introduced — a typical figure, like ' Everyman ' in the old Morality Play. In... | |
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - 1906 - Страниц: 190
...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."* If you would seek a further and a local parallel in the realm of imagination, strive to picture to... | |
 | Watson Surr - 1907 - Страниц: 240
...furnishing the introduction to the " Inferno." Readers of Dante will remember his famous prologue : — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death." «75 There was no gloom about this wood on the afternoon of our visit, but a bright sky, the fragrant... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1907 - Страниц: 166
...years of his life to a poem that involved the whole sweep of the question of evil and its overcoming : I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.2 Milton's greatest song was Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree,... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - Страниц: 562
...may, to the greatest possible extent, continue to be preserved in the country. In the ancient style. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct.* — Gary. No feeling of loyalty and veneration can enter the breast of a man who is base by nature.... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - Страниц: 784
...with the Italian poet himself. Feb. 22, 1805. (Vol. i. pp. v-viii.) [Inferno \. 1-27] In the mid way of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismayRenews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else... | |
 | John Kelman - 1911 - Страниц: 276
...not a dream.2 He was wide awake (in this, as in so much else, an exception and a protest), when — ' In the midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood," THE MAN is suddenly introduced — a typical figure, like Everyman in the old Morality Play. The rags... | |
 | Thomas Tapper - 1912 - Страниц: 312
...may be in the condition described by Dante in the opening lines of the "Divine Comedy." In the midst of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray. He is deeply involved in affairs, he is probably the victim of fear, certainly of care and uncertainty;... | |
 | Vachel Lindsay - 1916 - Страниц: 310
...you will. Let him begin his message in the timber lands of Minnesota or the forests of Alaska. "In midway of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood astray." Then let him paint new pictures of just punishment beyond the grave, and merciful rehabilitation and... | |
 | Frank Boreham - 1920 - Страниц: 276
...opens by describing the emotions with which, at the age of thirty-five, his soul awoke. He was lost 1 In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Neither Bunyan's pilgrim in his City of Destruction, nor his City of Mansoul beleaguered by fierce... | |
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