The Spiritual Sense of Dante's "Divina Commedia"D. Appleton, 1889 - 216 sidor |
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The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia William Torrey Harris Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1896 |
The Spiritual Sense of Dante's "Divina Commedia" William Torrey Harris Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1889 |
The Spiritual Sense of Dante's "Divina Commedia" William Torrey Harris Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1889 |
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absolute Æneid æons allegory angels anger Aristotle avarice Beatrice behold Boethius canto cause celestial Christian circle civil Cocytus Convito created Crete Dante Dante's deeds Divina Commedia divine charity Divine Grace doctrine doer earth effects envy eternal evil existence eyes fact faith fate fellow-men finite flames fraud freedom Geryon girdle Gnosticism grace Greek heaven Hell Hence highest Holy Spirit human idea immortality imperfect individual Inferno insight intellect Invisible Church justice knowledge labyrinth Last Judgment light Logos look lust means Mercury mind Minos Minotaur moon mortal sins mythos nature Neoplatonism pain perfect Phædo philosophy Plato poem poet poetic pride principle Proclus punishment pure Purgatory purification religion revelation Roman Rose of Paradise self-activity selfish sinner sloth social bond social whole society soul spiritual sense supreme symbol Tartarus terrace theology thou thought tion treachery tropes true truth violence Virgil vision
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Sida 191 - And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
Sida 191 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Sida 192 - And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron : forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things : and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters...
Sida 175 - But those who appear to be incurable by reason of the greatness of their crimes — who have committed many and terrible deeds of sacrilege, murders foul and violent, or the like — such are hurled into Tartarus which is their suitable destiny, and they never come out.
Sida 174 - Such is the nature of the other world ; and when the dead arrive at the place to which the genius of each severally conveys them, first of all, they have sentence passed upon them, as they have lived well and piously or not. And those who appear to have lived neither well nor ill...
Sida 173 - The wise and orderly soul is conscious of her situation, and follows in the path ; but the soul which desires the body, and which, as I was relating before, has long been fluttering about the lifeless frame and the world of sight, is after many struggles and many sufferings hardly and with violence carried away by her attendant genius, and when she arrives at the place where the other souls are gathered, if she be impure and have done impure deeds...
Sida 180 - Ardiaeus and others they bound head and foot and hand, and threw them down and flayed them with scourges, and dragged them along the road at the side, carding them on thorns like wool, and declaring to the passers-by what were their crimes, and that they were being taken away to be cast into hell.
Sida 176 - Those also who are remarkable for having led holy lives are released from this earthly prison, and go to their pure home which is above, and dwell in the purer earth ; and those who have duly purified themselves with philosophy live henceforth altogether without the body, in mansions fairer far than these, which may not be described, and of which the time would fail me to tell.
Sida 63 - Fixed in the slime, they say : Sullen were we in the sweet air, that is gladdened by the Sun, carrying lazy smoke within our hearts; now lie we sullen here in the black mire.
Sida 156 - There is a light above, which visible Makes the Creator unto every creature, Who only in beholding Him has peace, And it expands itself in circular form To such extent, that its circumference Would be too large a girdle for the sun.