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The Divine Comedy.† (source)
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DANTE, The Divine Comedy.† (source)
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As for guides (and no traveler to the underworld should be without one), Dante in the Divine Comedy (1321 A.D.) has the Roman poet Virgil; in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid (19 B.C.), Aeneas has the Cumaean Sibyl as his guide.† (source)
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The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.† (source)
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Come and sit by my side, dear child, and let us play the divine comedy of love.'† (source)
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He himself was accustomed to refer to it cynically as a monstrosity, and yet he put himself into it as intensely as Dante put himself into "The Divine Comedy."† (source)
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri Translated by Charles Eliot Norton PURGATORY CONTENTS CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.† (source)
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And if this be true of the comparatively simple folk mythologies (the systems of myth and ritual by which the primitive hunting and fishing tribes support themselves), what may we say of such magnificent cosmic metaphors as those reflected in the great Homeric epics, the Divine Comedy of Dante, the Book of Genesis, and the timeless temples of the Orient?† (source)
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It is such elements as these that have appealed to the larger reading public and that have naturally been emphasized by performance on the stage, and by virtue of these alone "Faust" may rank as a great drama; but it is the result of Goethe's broodings on the mystery of human life, shadowed forth in the symbolic parts and elaborated with still greater complexity and still more far-reaching suggestiveness—and, it must be added, with deepening obscurity—in the Second Part, that have given the work its place with "Job," with the "Prometheus Bound," with "The Divine Comedy," and with "Hamlet."† (source)
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The transcending of this pair of opposites is not encouraged (indeed, is rejected as "pantheism" and has sometimes been rewarded with the stake); nevertheless, the prayers and diaries of the Christian mystics abound in ecstatic descriptions of the unitive, soul-shattering experience (see above, p. 31), while Dante's vision at the conclusion of the Divine Comedy (see above, p. 164) certainly goes beyond the orthodox, dualistic, son, retistic dogma of the finality of the personalities of the Trinity.† (source)
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So many versions of the Divine Comedy exist in English that a new one might well seem needless.† (source)
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The Divine Comedy translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (e-text courtesy ILT's Digital Dante Project) PARADISO Paradiso: Canto I The glory of Him who moveth everything Doth penetrate the universe, and shine In one part more and in another less.† (source)
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri Translated by Charles Eliot Norton PARADISE CONTENTS CANTO I. Proem.† (source)
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No poem in any tongue is more informed with rhythmic life than the Divine Comedy.† (source)
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The Divine Comedy translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (e-text courtesy ILT's Digital Dante Project) PURGATORIO Purgatorio: Canto I To run o'er better waters hoists its sail The little vessel of my genius now, That leaves behind itself a sea so cruel; And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.† (source)
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I must assume that it will be familiar to the readers of my version, at least to those among them who desire truly to understand the Divine Comedy.† (source)
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