Purgatory And Paradise Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Purgatory In a prose translation the task of representing the music of the original poem is not attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Purgatory and Paradise It was just after the publication of Warton's History that the first English version of the Inferno was published. It was the work of Mr. Charles Rogers, ER S., a man of culti vated taste, whose two folio volumes of Prints in Imitation of Drawings by the Great Masters are still valued by lovers of the fine arts. His translation appeared anonymously in a quarto volume in 1782. I know it only by extracts from it, and, so far as one may judge from these specimens, it is a very respectable performance, in its general fidelity to the original and in the well-sustained measure of its blank verse. It is at least to be held as a superior work to the version of the In ferno by the Rev. Henry Boyd, an Irish clergyman, which appeared in 1785, and which was republished, seventeen years later, in 1802, with the addition of the other portions of the poem, forming thus the first complete English translation of the Divine Comedy. Mr. Boyd's notes and preliminary essays show that he had prepared himself for his task by some study of Italian history, but he was not a profound nor a very accurate scholar, and his notions of translation were of the most liberal character. His work is in iambic verse in stanzas of six lines, of which the first two, the third and sixth, the fourth and fifth rhyme. He makes no attempt to reproduce the qualities of the style and diction of the original, but is content with a free and fluent paraphrase of its meaning, often remoulding Dante's sentiment no less than his words, and adding to his thought or subtracting from it, not merely according to the need of the verse, but at times apparently according to the moral sense of the translator, or his wish to supply what he esteemed defective in the original. The very opening stanza affords a good example of his method. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Purgatory of Dante Alighieri, Vol. 2: The Earthly Paradise But even such a statement as this must not be pressed too far. Dante's conception of represent ing in a figure the scheme of man's redemption is, in his own phrase, polysensuous. On one side, it classifies and exemplifies all human passions, all human aspirations and desires, all the hind rances and all the helps which delay or assist man in fulfilling the law of his being. The Inferno shows how each evil passion indulged in brings its own appropriate punishment: the Purgaforz'o shows by what painful discipline it may be sub dued and eradicated. These lessons are not wholly new: they are a part of pagan morality: and they are illustrated from the teaching of pagan philo sophers, and from the examples of pagan lives. Here it is appropriate that Virgil, the typical re presentative of unassisted human wisdom, should be the pilgrim's guide and teacher, the exponent of pagan morality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Vol. 1 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Vol. 20: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri, Vol. 3 of 3 The Poet ascends with Beatrice towards the first heaven; and is, by her, resolved of certain doubts which arise in his mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri: Translated The Translation of the Second and Third Parts, The Purgatory and The Paradise, was begun long before the First, and as early as the year 1797; but, owing to many interruptions, not concluded till the summer before last. 011 a retrospect of the time and exertions that have been thus employed, I do not regard those hours as the least happy of my life, during which (to use the eloquent language of Mr. Cole ridge) my individual recollections have been suspended, and lulled to sleep amid the music of nobler thoughts; nor that study misapplied, which has familiarized me with one of the sublimest efforts of the human invention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Vol. 2 of 3 My son! Observant thou my steps pursue. We must retreat to rereward; for that way The champaign to its low extreme declines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.