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...Mr. Christie was a professor for the University of Manchester. He past away before a University library was constructed and so he left in his will the offer to build the school a library at his expense, which the University gratefully accepted and now house...

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... ^:>\^\- PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER BIBLIOGRA... ... COLLECTION COMPRISING THEPRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS BEQUEATHED TO ... ...ofessorships of History,of PoHtical Economy, and of Jurisprudence in the Owens College (incorporatedwith the University of Manchest... ...n the Owens College (incorporatedwith the University of Manchester in 1904), had cherished the hope of seeing theCollege provided ... ...an added interest by having been previously owned bywell-known book-collectors—such as J. A. de Thou, the Marques de Morante, ... ... J. B. Egnatius,Stendhal, &c. Cross-references are given in each case.vi PREFACE Library Catalogues are indexed un... ...Stationers up to 1640 528 VI. Index of Latin Geographical Names 530 ... ...lins.] 2 vols., illust. 8vo., Paris : par printed in its own pr^iper characters. A lite of M. Boursette veufve de feu F. Regnault, 1543. ... ...ther edition.] fol., 1524. supplement including a key to the assumed characters in the drama. L. P. DICTIONARY. A bibliographica...

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His Lyrics in Greek Meters in four books in a new English translation.

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...The Satires Satires: Book I Satire I - On Discontent Satires: Book I Satire II – On Extremism Satires: Book I Satire III – On Tolerance Satires: Book I Satire IV – A Defence of Satire Satires: Book I Satire V – Journey ...

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...se, for any non- commercial purpose. &RQWHQWVSatires: Book I Satire I - On Discontent............................11B... ..............................................................12BkISatI:61-91 The miseries of the wealthy.......................13BkISatI:92-121 Set a li... ................13BkISatI:92-121 Set a limit to your desire for riches..........14Satires: Book I Satire II – On Extremism .........................16BkI... ......................................................................16BkISatII:23-46 And in sexual matters some prefer adultery........................... ...-75 We denigrate people unjustly .................24BkISatIII:76-98 We should be fairer in our judgements...25BkISatIII:99-119 All sins are not equal ... ......35BkISatV:71-104 And so by stages to journey’s end .........36Satires: Book I Satire VI – On Ambition ..........................38BkISatVI:1-44 Anc... ...3BkIISatV:89-110 Be discrete even after inheriting ...........84Satires: Book II Satire VI – Town versus Country ...........86BkIISatVI:1-39 On the Sa... ...Satires: Book II Satire VII – Of Spiritual Freedom...........91BkIISatVII:1-20 Unstable characters suffer more.............91BkIISatVII:21-45 And Hora... ...Io wandering, Orestes sad.If you’re staging something untried, and dareTo attempt fresh characters, keep them as firstIntroduced, from start to end se...

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The Twelve Caesars in a new prose translation

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...Book I Julius Caesar Book II Augustus Book III Tiberius Book IV Gaius Caligula Book V Claudius Book VI Nero Book VII Galba, Otho, Vitellius Book VIII Vespasian, Titus, Domitian...

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... ContentsTranslator’s NoteBook One: Julius Caesar (later deified)Book One: I Early LifeBook One: II First CampaignBook One: III Retur... ...RomeBook One: IV The Dolabella Trial, Rhodes and AsiaBook One: V Military Tribune in RomeBook One: VI Family EulogiesBook One: VII His DestinyBook One... ...The Dolabella Trial, Rhodes and AsiaBook One: V Military Tribune in RomeBook One: VI Family EulogiesBook One: VII His DestinyBook One: VIII The Italia... ...oloniesBook One: IX ConspiracyBook One: X Wooing the MassesBook One: XI Political In-fightingBook One: XII The Trial of Gaius RabiriusBook One: XIII P... ...One: X Wooing the MassesBook One: XI Political In-fightingBook One: XII The Trial of Gaius RabiriusBook One: XIII Pontifex MaximusBook One: XIV The Ca... ... Consulship: Strategic AlliancesBook One: XX The ‘Consulship of Julius and Caesar’Book One: XXI Alliance with PompeyBook One: XXII Governor of GaulBoo... ...: III His FatherBook Two: IV His Maternal AncestorsBook Two: V His BirthBook Two: VI His NurseryBook Two: VII His Various NamesBook Two: VIII A Brief ... ...ect as aprivate citizen, was able to initiate their general use as Emperor. These characters can be seen inmany books of the period, the official gaze... ...he younger Helvidius Priscus was also done away with, on the pretext that the charactersof the faithless Paris and his lover Oenone, played on s...

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Voyage to Modernity a critical study of Baudelaire’s poetry.

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...I: Introduction: The Invitation To The Voyage II: The Idyll (The Vision of Paradise) III: Voyage to Cythera (The Vision of Venus) IV: The City (The Vision of Hell) V: Voyage to Modernity (The Vision of Limitation) VI: The Poet As Hero (T...

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... Voyage To ModernityThe Poetry of Charles Baudelaire A. S. Kline © 2005 All Rights Reserve... ...e Voyage ............................................ 6II: The Idyll (The Vision of Paradise) ........................................................... ........................................................................ 62Don Juan in Hell ................................................................ ........................................................................ 63On Tasso in Prison (Eugène Delacroix’s painting) ................................ ...se defeated and exiled by society.Incidentally, as previously suggested, a whole book could be written on theeyes that appear in Baudelaire’s poems, o... ... Evening and Morning Twilight, the City is apopulated ant-heap with recognisable characters that arouse empathy.These are exiles too, lost on the ocea... ...opulate the Aeneid (See especially Cybele’s transformation of the Trojanfleet in Book IX). They are the steeds of heroes: of Odysseus, or theArgonauts... ...ps fromOvid, from that late pagan world that believed and doubted simultaneously.VI: The Poet As Hero (The Vision of Icarus)Where does the immensity o... ...ants gliding snakes caress.’ VAnd then, what then? VI ‘O, Childishness!Not to forget the main thing, ever...

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A new complete translation of his prose Memoirs, Mémoires d’outre-tombe.

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...Testamentary Preface 1833 Book I Childhood 1768-1777 Book II Boyhood 1777-1784 Book III Adolescence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York...

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.................................................. 33Book I: Chapter 2: Birth of my brothers and sisters - I arrive in the world. 43Book I: Chapter 3: Pl... ............ 33Book I: Chapter 2: Birth of my brothers and sisters - I arrive in the world. 43Book I: Chapter 3: Plancouët – A Vow – Combourg – My father... ... A note from Monsieur Pasquier – Dieppe – A change inmy education – Spring in Brittany – Ancient Forest – Pelagian Fields –Moonset over the sea ......... ... land ............................................................ 209Book VI: Chapter 1: Prologue ...................................................... ..................................................................... 215Book VI: Chapter 2: Ocean Passage.................................................. ... XXV: Chapter 6: I am struck off the list of Ministers of State – I sellmy books and La Vallée .......................................................... ...re new generations will land.Preface:Sect5 These Mémoires, divided into books and chapters, were written atdifferent dates and in different places:... ...deals he endured in his early life, endowedhim with one of the most sombre characters there has ever been. Thischaracter influenced my ideas by terrif... ... complete the misery, my grandmother was thwarted in her plansby her sons’ characters: the eldest François-Henri, on whom the magnificentestate of Vil...

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A critical study of Ovid's Metamorphoses hyper-linked to the preceding translation.

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...I The Golden Honeycomb II The Dual Paths of Art III The Structure of the Metamorphoses IV Ovid’s Interest in Myth V Nature,The Matrix VI The Power of the Gods VII The Nature of the Male Gods VIII The Nature of the Goddes...

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...LWH 5HIOHFWLRQV 2Q 2YLG¶V 0HWDPRUSKRVHV Incorporating a hyper-linked translation of the Metamorphoses and an in-depth indexThe photograph above s... ...RUSKRVHV Incorporating a hyper-linked translation of the Metamorphoses and an in-depth indexThe photograph above shows the English sculptor Michae... ...e shows the English sculptor Michael Ayrton’s cast (1968) of a natural honeycomb in gold, using the "lost wax" method. A. S. Kline © 200... ...en eye, the extended arms and stride. Amyth is made, that Ovid partially retells (BookVIII:236) explaining how Daedalus in jealousyflung the boy, Talo... ...half-human, half-bull, a metaphor forMinos’ power. Daedalus then made a Labyrinth(Book VIII:152) beneath the palace of Cnossos, ... ...t with his dead father,Anchises (See also Virgil: $HQHLG Book VI). From Italy, Daedalus flew on, and reachedSicily, and the cou... ...y designed mosaic or aclever tapestry, like those Arachne and Minervaweave. (Book VI:70).,9 2YLG¶V ,QWHUHVW LQ 0\WK 30The myths ... ...Venus, goddess of the wholework, of the leading passion that drives somany of its characters, Aphrodite of Eryx,mistress of the golden honeycomb, loos... ...agonists are driven moreby the nature of their circumstances and theirown characters, by fate, rather than by ‘destiny’in any of its forms. Wi...

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...Biographies of four famous Elizabethans: Essex, Marlowe, Raleigh and Donne, within the context of the history of ideas, with reference to poetry, astrology, history, and mythology including the concept of the Goddess....

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I The Elizabethan Age II Essex III Marlowe IV Raleigh V Donne VI The Idea of the Goddess

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...COMMERCIAL purpose. 2‘Nature, that fram’d us of four elementsDoth teach us all to have aspiring minds:Our souls, whose f... ...g minds:Our souls, whose faculties can comprehendThe wondrous architecture of the world,And measure every wandering planet’s course,Still climbing aft... ...inds:Our souls, whose faculties can comprehendThe wondrous architecture of the world,And measure every wandering planet’s course,Still climbing after ... ...lanet’s course,Still climbing after knowledge infiniteAnd always moving as the restless spheres,Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest...’0DUORZH ... ...ORZH 7KH )LUVW 3DUW RI 7DPEXUODLQH WKH *UHDW$FW ,, 6FHQH9,, OLQHV ‘In pride, in reas’ning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere, and rus... ...35 4 7KH (OL]DEHWKDQ $JH History is alive in the Individual: theIndividual comes to life in History. TheIndividual is... ... ofyour...chamber shall be the poles of mysphere’. Raleigh writes his Last Book of theOcean to Scinthia, the moon-goddess, theFaerie Queen, ‘She is go... ...id predictedimmortality for himself. Marlowe also. InElegy 15 of the first Book ‘Then thoughDeath rakes my bones in funerall fire, I’ll liveand as he ... ...le Saturnianconsistency. He has called in questionthrough the masks of his characters and in hisown life most of the given beliefs of his Age.The auth...

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...Keeping our patrons informed with the ongoing changes, we created the World Library Foundation Newsletter. The newsletter includes news and information about our various portals and the wonderful books, articles, encyclopedias, photographs, and research docum...

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...In This Issue: 1 Manners & Civility: From Wisdom Literature to Novels of Manners 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Speak, Memory: The Orality of Epic Poetry 5 Hoist the Jolly Roger!: Pirates in Literatur...

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... September 2018 | Volume 2 | Issue 9 Manners & Civility In This Issue: From Wisdom Literature to Novels... ... Manners & Civility In This Issue: From Wisdom Literature to Novels of 1 Manners & Civility: Fro... ...tying political advisor), is credited with writing one of the world’s of Epic Poetryfirst books on polite conduct, The Maxims of Ptahhotep, ... ... one of the world’s of Epic Poetryfirst books on polite conduct, The Maxims of Ptahhotep, in the third 5 Hoist the Jolly Roger!:mill... ...od, wrote The (The Age of Innocence), and John P. MarquandBaldassare Castiglione by Raffaello Book of the Courtier (The Late George Apley).Sa... ...one ofchild stolen by gypsies from his affluent family the first serious depictions of Black characters ingrows up to lead a life of piracy in ... ... By Karen M. SmithAncient and sweet, produced by insects vi-tal to agriculture and plant reproduction, andp... ...iod.other German born composer and pianist. He In 1863, he was appointed conductor of the Vi-was born May 7th, 1833, but his family wasn’t ... ....the laste 1960s and graduatedwith a degree in psychology Which of your characters is yourfrom the University of Minho, ...

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...There is no greater introduction to world literature than Homer’s Iliad. The great epic poem tells the story of the Bronze Age war between the Achaeans (Greeks) and Trojans, the great warriors who did the fighting, the woman they were fighting for (and fighting over), and the gods who egged them o...

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...Goddess, sing the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, which brought countless woes to the Achaeans and sent the souls of many brave heroes to Hades, their bodies made into a feast for dogs and crows all to carry out the unfathomable will ...

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...Acknowledgments Introduction Translator's Note Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12 Book 13 Book 14 Book 15 Book 16 Book 17 Book 18 Book 19 Book 20 Book 21 Book 22 Book 23 Book 24 Glossary of Names ...

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... 454Book 24 481Glossary of Names and Places 507Bibliography ... ... 549 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would like to thank the administrators, board members, andmy fellow faculty members at Imperial... ...so like to thank my siblings, Virginia Kearney andDouglas Heumann, for all of their love and encouragement.To my parents-in-law, Joseph and Carolyn Kr... ... andDouglas Heumann, for all of their love and encouragement.To my parents-in-law, Joseph and Carolyn Krejci, thank you forall of your love and suppor... ...around750 BCE but based upon an oral tradition that extended backcenturies.In the ancient world, there was no question that the TrojanWar was a real e... ...arious layers of Troy, and the generalconsensus among experts is that Troy VI or Troy VII are mostlikely to have been inhabited during the periods mos... ...mnon’s treatment of him. Shedoes this, and Zeus agrees.All this happens in Book 1. For the next fourteen books, thewill of Zeus plays out as he promis... ...t). In all, the cycle contained eight epics:2 1. Cypria (Κύπρια): 11 books long, focusing on events leading up to the Trojan War like the... ...s toavenge on Agamemnon’s words and actions?In order to understand why the characters behave the way thatthey do, it is important to understand three ...

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...An author who frequently played with the borders of his own identity, Borges loved to create works in collaboration with others. One of his longtime companions in this literary game of exquisite corpse was Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, who translated this edition o...

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...The writing of vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea which could be perfectly expressed orally in a few minutes - is an exhausting and impoverishing piece of extravagance. Far better to pretend that such book...

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...Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 The Approach to al-Mu’tasim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Pierre Menard, the Author of Don Quixote . . . . . . . . . 15 Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 The Circular Ruins . . . . . ....

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‘No joy in corrupting Venus to a blind motion: know, if you do not, the eyes are the guides of Love.’ Book II.15:11-12

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... Academic Essays on Miscellaneous Authors Representing the Classics of the Western Canon: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to N... ... accurately he might try to imagine them, so the Latinscholar Gilbert Highet is not wrong in saying that it is an erroneous presumption that contempor... ... that contemporary culture isbetter than that which preceded it1. Had he meant "culture" in the sense of society or civilization perhaps his1 Highet,... ...hy he is deemed to be more righteousthan others, and episodic fragments involving various characters that start and stop incessantly to be replaced by... ...start and stop incessantly to be replaced bynew characters and incidents, that this first book of the Torah fully loses its literary appeal. Exodus is... ...h fully loses its literary appeal. Exodus is a farmore cohesive narrative with consistent characters and style of narrative; however, it comes across ... ...the elements of matter is not the absurdity that Edith Hamiltonimputes it as being in her book, The Greek Way, a work conflating history, history of i... ...t one which also provides insight into Raskolnikov and Nihilism byits contrast is Chapter VI of Part VI in the novel where the author’s limited omnisc... ...t one which also provides insight into Raskolnikov and Nihilism by itscontrast is Chapter VI of Part VI in the novel where the author’s limited omnisc...

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... Chapter 2. Quantum Cussedness. Chapter 3. Welcome to Dragsville USA. Chapter 4. Tarot and Pamela Colman Smith. Chapter 5. Adventures with the Mussolinis. Chapter 6. Question Preliminaries. Chapter 7. Self-Examination Questions. Chapter 8. It's Not Just You: It's Those Damn Newtonians! Chapter 9. Questions About Externals. Chapter 10. In Search of...

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A treatment of agriculture, food and related sciences as integral components of philosophy

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...Prologue This book deals with the transition from knowledge to wisdom. Wisdom justifies the use of the word philosophy throughout the text from its etymology of ‘the love of wisdom’, which across millennia has been interpreted as understan...

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... COINTELPRO 5.0: Unraveling the Web of Gangstalking, Deep State Intrigues, Societal Engineering, and Su... ...Armstrong AdamsDear readers,I am excited to announce the public release of my book, now available for freedownload on various websites. Your support, ... ...or contributions, I am genuinelyhappy that you can still access and enjoy the book for free. Your readership isinvaluable, and I hope you find the con... ...inition and objectives of COINTELPRO - Page 1 J. Edgar Hoover's Involvement in COINTELPRO and the Revelation of Government Surveillance - Page 2 C... ...9/11 Truth Movement and COINTELPRO - Page 8 Whistle-blowers and Journalists in the Shadow of COINTELPRO - Page 9 The Controversial Case of Julian... ...the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Vatican and meet with Pope Paul VI.The discussions during this historic meeting centered around the purs... ... 26 | P a g e[PHOTO ABOVE] President Richard Nixon meets with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican on March2, 1969, fostering diplomatic relations betwee... ...r Survival:The urgency of survival in the face of existential threats prompts characters to overcomedifferences in these films. Whether it's political... ...ntation of 338 | P a g eCatholic characters in films may not solely be a reflection of religious demograp...

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A new authoritative translation of Chateaubriand's travel notes Voyage en Italie. Romantic Classicism among the ruins!

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...First Letter to Monsieur Joubert Journal Second Letter to Monsieur Joubert Third Letter to Monsieur Joubert Tivoli, and Hadrian’s Villa The Vatican The Capitoline Museum The Doria Gallery A Moonlit Walk through Rome A Trip To Naples Pozzuoli and Solfatara Vesuvius. Patria, or Liternum Baiae Herculaneum, Portici, Pompeii To Monsieur de Fontanes...

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...François de Chateaubriand Travels in Italy (Voyage en Italie) Translated by A. S. Kline ... ... First Letter to Monsieur Joubert(Monsieur Joubert, the elder brother of the Advocate General at the Court of Annulment, a man ofrare spirit, a s... ...t select society bound together by his presence; a manwhose death has left in my life one of those voids the years impose on us, and which they cannot... ...y bound together by his presence; a manwhose death has left in my life one of those voids the years impose on us, and which they cannotrepair.)Turin, ... ...ave tasted suchpure delight if I had written, with all imaginable skill, a book which struck a blow at morality orreligion? Convey to our little ci... ...d the time to honour my word. I merely scribbled with a pencil, in apocket-book, the journal I now send you. You will find in the Postal List, the nam... ...to hell: Foliisque sub omnibus haerent:clinging beneath every leaf (Aeneid VI:284). Chambéry is situated in a hollow, whose elevated boundaries are... ...othing could extend its wings Safely in flight……………………………… (Aeneid VI: 239-240) As to the golden bough, had all the doves in the world reve... ...hich I have not had time to visit.You are aware that they assume different characters, according to the recollections attached tothem. One beautifu...

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The Banquet, Dante's commentary on three of his canzoni, providing an interesting background to the philosophy of the Divine Comedy.

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........................................................ 6Chapter I: The Nature of the Banquet ................................................. 6Chapter... ... Vernacular: Sovereignty.......................................... 14Chapter VI: The Vernacular: Understanding................................... 16Ch... ...nerosity Displayed........................ 22Chapter X: The Vernacular: Love of the Native Tongue................. 24Chapter XI: The Vernacular: Its D... ...er V: The First Canzone – The Angelic Orders...................... 46Chapter VI: The First Canzone – The Influence of Venus .............. 49Chapter V... ....................................... 106Chapter XIII: Philosophy’s Existence in the Intelligences............. 108Chapter XIV: In Praise of Love ........ ...Love ........................................................ 110Chapter XV: In Praise of Wisdom.................................................... 1... ............................... 205 5 Book I Chapter I: The Nature of the Banquet As Aristotle st... ...ation, which is distorted in the same manner. Thus Virgil says, in thefourth book of the Aeneid, that Fame thrives on movement and gains bycirculation... ...lfind that Roman history, especially that of Livy, portrays them as menwhose characters differed according to the needs of the historical moment. Ifwe...

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...The author has completed his own translation of the Divine Comedy and finds that it is still hard for readers to manage the whole text. He has extracted what he feels is the main spiritual thread and worked with key passages....

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... La Comedia di Dante Alighieri The Comedy of Dante Alighieri ... ... A SHORTER COMEDY PREFACE Family and friends; the purpose of this abridged version of the Divine Comedy is to e... ...st attempt, and the reasons are obvious. The narrative is complex and threads are so easily lost in the pursuit of arcane mysteries and historical ove... ...), to a state of hope, and ultimately of joy. It is thus, I believe the story of a “conversion”, in the sense used by William James in Varieties of Re... ...raightforward as these. If we wereconfronted by an owl in a suit of armour standing on a pile of books, we might notknow that she represents Minerva, ... ...gious doubts or at least someground for peaceful co-existence with them. He has looked for it in books, in highculture and lower, in monastic life, an... ...ricious, the adulterers, rebels, traitors, corrupt politicians, the incestuous (The Aeneid, Bk vi, p. xxii. Modern School Classics, MacMillan 1946),... ...946), noting, too, the Sibyl’s caveat: “not with a hundred tongues could I tell it all”, etc. (vi vv. 625– 7).13. Maugham, WS. Selected Novels Vol... ...or excessive love and “easy surrender to the temptations of the flesh” (Sayers). As with many characters in the Comedy, he has several roles, socia...

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... Description The author has completed his own translation of the Divine Comedy and finds that it is still hard for readers to manage the whole text. He has extracted what he feels is the main spiritual thread and worked with key passages....

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...Excerpt INFERNO V They enter the second circle, the first of Hell proper, which encloses less space, (che men loco cinghia), than the previous one, but has so much greater pain, (tanto più dolor). Minos, the judge, guards the ...

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... La Comedia di Dante Alighieri The Comedy of Dante Alighieri ... ... A SHORTER COMEDY PREFACE Family and friends; the purpose of this abridged version of the Divine Comedy is to e... ...st attempt, and the reasons are obvious. The narrative is complex and threads are so easily lost in the pursuit of arcane mysteries and historical ove... ...), to a state of hope, and ultimately of joy. It is thus, I believe the story of a “conversion”, in the sense used by William James in Varieties of Re... ...raightforward as these. If we wereconfronted by an owl in a suit of armour standing on a pile of books, we might notknow that she represents Minerva, ... ...gious doubts or at least someground for peaceful co-existence with them. He has looked for it in books, in highculture and lower, in monastic life, an... ...ricious, the adulterers, rebels, traitors, corrupt politicians, the incestuous (The Aeneid, Bk vi, p. xxii. Modern School Classics, MacMillan 1946),... ...946), noting, too, the Sibyl’s caveat: “not with a hundred tongues could I tell it all”, etc. (vi vv. 625– 7).13. Maugham, WS. Selected Novels Vol... ...or excessive love and “easy surrender to the temptations of the flesh” (Sayers). As with many characters in the Comedy, he has several roles, socia...

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...ON OR, HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE OFDANTE ALIGHIERI The Divine Comedy of Dante Translanted by H. F. Cary THE VISION OR, HELL, PURGATORY, AND ... ...NTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, A.M. HELL CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life,I found me in a gloomy wood, astrayGo... ..., how 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... ...sEternal, and eternal I endure.All hope abandon ye who enter here." Such characters in colour dim I mark'dOver a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:Where... ... who ne'erFrom me shall separate, at once my lipsAll trembling kiss'd. The book and writer bothWere love's purveyors. In its leaves that dayWe read no... ...g, seem'd not farFrom death, and like a corpse fell to the ground. CANTO VI MY sense reviving, that erewhile had droop'dWith pity for the kindred ... ...econd in descentFrom God. These two, if thou recall to mindCreation's holy book, from the beginningWere the right source of life and excellenceTo huma... ...ear light.] Lo fioco lume 136So Filicaja, canz. vi. st. 12. Qual fioco lume. v. 77. An old man.] Portitor has horre... ...e sense of toilAffects me journeying?" He in few replied:"When sin's broad characters, that yet remainUpon thy temples, though well nigh effac'd,Shall...