text stringlengths 2.05k 1.01M | title stringlengths 2 620 | author stringlengths 0 92 | author year of birth stringclasses 367
values | author year of death stringclasses 390
values | language stringclasses 16
values | downloads stringclasses 887
values | subjects stringlengths 7 775 | document id stringlengths 3 7 | type stringclasses 1
value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Folco that people called me unto whom
My name was known; and now with me this heaven
Imprints itself, as I did once with it;
For more the daughter of Belus never burned,
Offending both Sichaeus and Creusa,
Than I, so long as it became my locks,
Nor yet that Rodophean, who deluded
was by Demophoon, ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Shall soon be free from this adultery.”
Paradiso: Canto X
Looking into his Son with all the Love
Which each of them eternally breathes forth,
The Primal and unutterable Power
Whate’er before the mind or eye revolves
With so much order made, there can be none
Who this beholds without enjoying Him.
Lif... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And if our fantasies too lowly are
For altitude so great, it is no marvel,
Since o’er the sun was never eye could go.
Such in this place was the fourth family
Of the high Father, who forever sates it,
Showing how he breathes forth and how begets.
And Beatrice began: “Give thanks, give thanks
Unto t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Of the lambs was I of the holy flock
Which Dominic conducteth by a road
Where well one fattens if he strayeth not.
He who is nearest to me on the right
My brother and master was; and he Albertus
Is of Cologne, I Thomas of Aquinum.
If thou of all the others wouldst be certain,
Follow behind my speak... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Wherein one part the other draws and urges,
Ting! ting! resounding with so sweet a note,
That swells with love the spirit well disposed,
Thus I beheld the glorious wheel move round,
And render voice to voice, in modulation
And sweetness that can not be comprehended,
Excepting there where joy is made et... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
One will I speak of, for of both is spoken
In praising one, whichever may be taken,
Because unto one end their labours were.
Between Tupino and the stream that falls
Down from the hill elect of blessed Ubald,
A fertile slope of lofty mountain hangs,
From which Perugia feels the cold and heat
Throug... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Nor cowardice of heart weighed down his brow
At being son of Peter Bernardone,
Nor for appearing marvellously scorned;
But regally his hard determination
To Innocent he opened, and from him
Received the primal seal upon his Order.
After the people mendicant increased
Behind this man, whose admirabl... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
In part contented shall thy wishes be;
For thou shalt see the plant that’s chipped away,
And the rebuke that lieth in the words,
‘Where well one fattens, if he strayeth not.’”
Paradiso: Canto XII
Soon as the blessed flame had taken up
The final word to give it utterance,
Began the holy millstone to r... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And, as was said, he to his Bride brought succour
With champions twain, at whose deed, at whose word
The straggling people were together drawn.
Within that region where the sweet west wind
Rises to open the new leaves, wherewith
Europe is seen to clothe herself afresh,
Not far off from the beating of t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Not to dispense or two or three for six,
Not any fortune of first vacancy,
‘Non decimas quae sunt pauperum Dei,’
He asked for, but against the errant world
Permission to do battle for the seed,
Of which these four and twenty plants surround thee.
Then with the doctrine and the will together,
With o... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Here is Rabanus, and beside me here
Shines the Calabrian Abbot Joachim,
He with the spirit of prophecy endowed.
To celebrate so great a paladin
Have moved me the impassioned courtesy
And the discreet discourses of Friar Thomas,
And with me they have moved this company.”
Paradiso: Canto XIII
Let him i... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And into that which, by the lance transfixed,
Before and since, such satisfaction made
That it weighs down the balance of all sin,
Whate’er of light it has to human nature
Been lawful to possess was all infused
By the same power that both of them created;
And hence at what I said above dost wonder,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Now if no farther forth I should proceed,
‘Then in what way was he without a peer?’
Would be the first beginning of thy words.
But, that may well appear what now appears not,
Think who he was, and what occasion moved him
To make request, when it was told him, ‘Ask.’
I’ve not so spoken that thou canst n... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And I have seen a ship direct and swift
Run o’er the sea throughout its course entire,
To perish at the harbour’s mouth at last.
Let not Dame Bertha nor Ser Martin think,
Seeing one steal, another offering make,
To see them in the arbitrament divine;
For one may rise, and fall the other may.”
Paradiso... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
When, glorious and sanctified, our flesh
Is reassumed, then shall our persons be
More pleasing by their being all complete;
For will increase whate’er bestows on us
Of light gratuitous the Good Supreme,
Light which enables us to look on Him;
Therefore the vision must perforce increase,
Increase the... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And not yet from my bosom was exhausted
The ardour of sacrifice, before I knew
This offering was accepted and auspicious;
For with so great a lustre and so red
Splendours appeared to me in twofold rays,
I said: “O Helios who dost so adorn them!”
Even as distinct with less and greater lights
Glimmer... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Because ascending it becomes more pure.
Paradiso: Canto XV
A will benign, in which reveals itself
Ever the love that righteously inspires,
As in the iniquitous, cupidity,
Silence imposed upon that dulcet lyre,
And quieted the consecrated chords,
That Heaven’s right hand doth tighten and relax.
How un... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And it continued: “Hunger long and grateful,
Drawn from the reading of the mighty volume
Wherein is never changed the white nor dark,
Thou hast appeased, my son, within this light
In which I speak to thee, by grace of her
Who to this lofty flight with plumage clothed thee.
Thou thinkest that to me thy ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
A son of mine and thy great-grandsire was;
Well it behoves thee that the long fatigue
Thou shouldst for him make shorter with thy works.
Florence, within the ancient boundary
From which she taketh still her tierce and nones,
Abode in quiet, temperate and chaste.
No golden chain she had, nor coronal,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
I followed in his train against that law’s
Iniquity, whose people doth usurp
Your just possession, through your Pastor’s fault.
There by that execrable race was I
Released from bonds of the fallacious world,
The love of which defileth many souls,
And came from martyrdom unto this peace.”
Paradiso: Can... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Suffice it of my elders to hear this;
But who they were, and whence they thither came,
Silence is more considerate than speech.
All those who at that time were there between
Mars and the Baptist, fit for bearing arms,
Were a fifth part of those who now are living;
But the community, that now is mixed
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And saw, as mighty as they ancient were,
With him of La Sannella him of Arca,
And Soldanier, Ardinghi, and Bostichi.
Near to the gate that is at present laden
With a new felony of so much weight
That soon it shall be jetsam from the bark,
The Ravignani were, from whom descended
The County Guido, an... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Was honoured in itself and its companions.
O Buondelmonte, how in evil hour
Thou fled’st the bridal at another’s promptings!
Many would be rejoicing who are sad,
If God had thee surrendered to the Ema
The first time that thou camest to the city.
But it behoved the mutilated stone
Which guards the b... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Not in vague phrase, in which the foolish folk
Ensnared themselves of old, ere yet was slain
The Lamb of God who taketh sins away,
But with clear words and unambiguous
Language responded that paternal love,
Hid and revealed by its own proper smile:
“Contingency, that outside of the volume
Of your m... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
With him shalt thou see one who at his birth
Has by this star of strength been so impressed,
That notable shall his achievements be.
Not yet the people are aware of him
Through his young age, since only nine years yet
Around about him have these wheels revolved.
But ere the Gascon cheat the noble Henry... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
The light in which was smiling my own treasure
Which there I had discovered, flashed at first
As in the sunshine doth a golden mirror;
Then made reply: “A conscience overcast
Or with its own or with another’s shame,
Will taste forsooth the tartness of thy word;
But ne’ertheless, all falsehood laid asid... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
So, by the flaming of the effulgence holy
To which I turned, I recognized therein
The wish of speaking to me somewhat farther.
And it began: “In this fifth resting-place
Upon the tree that liveth by its summit,
And aye bears fruit, and never loses leaf,
Are blessed spirits that below, ere yet
They ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And even as birds uprisen from the shore,
As in congratulation o’er their food,
Make squadrons of themselves, now round, now long,
So from within those lights the holy creatures
Sang flying to and fro, and in their figures
Made of themselves now D, now I, now L.
First singing they to their own music mo... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
So that a second time it now be wroth
With buying and with selling in the temple
Whose walls were built with signs and martyrdoms!
O soldiery of heaven, whom I contemplate,
Implore for those who are upon the earth
All gone astray after the bad example!
Once ’twas the custom to make war with swords;
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Even as a falcon, issuing from his hood,
Doth move his head, and with his wings applaud him,
Showing desire, and making himself fine,
Saw I become that standard, which of lauds
Was interwoven of the grace divine,
With such songs as he knows who there rejoices.
Then it began: “He who a compass turned
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Truly to him who with me subtilizes,
If so the Scripture were not over you,
For doubting there were marvellous occasion.
O animals terrene, O stolid minds,
The primal will, that in itself is good,
Ne’er from itself, the Good Supreme, has moved.
So much is just as is accordant with it;
No good creat... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Be seen the avarice and poltroonery
Of him who guards the Island of the Fire,
Wherein Anchises finished his long life;
And to declare how pitiful he is
Shall be his record in contracted letters
Which shall make note of much in little space.
And shall appear to each one the foul deeds
Of uncle and o... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
There it became a voice, and issued thence
From out its beak, in such a form of words
As the heart waited for wherein I wrote them.
“The part in me which sees and bears the sun
In mortal eagles,” it began to me,
“Now fixedly must needs be looked upon;
For of the fires of which I make my figure,
Tho... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Such seemed to me the image of the imprint
Of the eternal pleasure, by whose will
Doth everything become the thing it is.
And notwithstanding to my doubt I was
As glass is to the colour that invests it,
To wait the time in silence it endured not,
But forth from out my mouth, “What things are these?”
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Whence he believed therein, and suffered not
From that day forth the stench of paganism,
And he reproved therefor the folk perverse.
Those Maidens three, whom at the right-hand wheel
Thou didst behold, were unto him for baptism
More than a thousand years before baptizing.
O thou predestination, how rem... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Would recognize how grateful was to me
Obedience unto my celestial escort,
By counterpoising one side with the other.
Within the crystal which, around the world
Revolving, bears the name of its dear leader,
Under whom every wickedness lay dead,
Coloured like gold, on which the sunshine gleams,
A st... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
But the high charity, that makes us servants
Prompt to the counsel which controls the world,
Allotteth here, even as thou dost observe.”
“I see full well,” said I, “O sacred lamp!
How love unfettered in this court sufficeth
To follow the eternal Providence;
But this is what seems hard for me to see,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
That cloister used to render to these heavens
Abundantly, and now is empty grown,
So that perforce it soon must be revealed.
I in that place was Peter Damiano;
And Peter the Sinner was I in the house
Of Our Lady on the Adriatic shore.
Little of mortal life remained to me,
When I was called and drag... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
As it seemed good to her mine eyes I turned,
And saw a hundred spherules that together
With mutual rays each other more embellished.
I stood as one who in himself represses
The point of his desire, and ventures not
To question, he so feareth the too much.
And now the largest and most luculent
Among... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Up to that height the Patriarch Jacob saw it
Extending its supernal part, what time
So thronged with angels it appeared to him.
But to ascend it now no one uplifts
His feet from off the earth, and now my Rule
Below remaineth for mere waste of paper.
The walls that used of old to be an Abbey
Are cha... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And then when grace was freely given to me
To enter the high wheel which turns you round,
Your region was allotted unto me.
To you devoutly at this hour my soul
Is sighing, that it virtue may acquire
For the stern pass that draws it to itself.
“Thou art so near unto the last salvation,”
Thus Beatri... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Even thus my Lady standing was, erect
And vigilant, turned round towards the zone
Underneath which the sun displays less haste;
So that beholding her distraught and wistful,
Such I became as he is who desiring
For something yearns, and hoping is appeased.
But brief the space from one When to the other;... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
To aid me, to a thousandth of the truth
It would not reach, singing the holy smile
And how the holy aspect it illumed.
And therefore, representing Paradise,
The sacred poem must perforce leap over,
Even as a man who finds his way cut off;
But whoso thinketh of the ponderous theme,
And of the mortal... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And I shall circle, Lady of Heaven, while
Thou followest thy Son, and mak’st diviner
The sphere supreme, because thou enterest there.”
Thus did the circulated melody
Seal itself up; and all the other lights
Were making to resound the name of Mary.
The regal mantle of the volumes all
Of that world, ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And as the wheels in works of horologes
Revolve so that the first to the beholder
Motionless seems, and the last one to fly,
So in like manner did those carols, dancing
In different measure, of their affluence
Give me the gauge, as they were swift or slow.
From that one which I noted of most beauty
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And I continued: “As the truthful pen,
Father, of thy dear brother wrote of it,
Who put with thee Rome into the good way,
Faith is the substance of the things we hope for,
And evidence of those that are not seen;
And this appears to me its quiddity.”
Then heard I: “Very rightly thou perceivest,
If ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
“Were the world to Christianity converted,”
I said, “withouten miracles, this one
Is such, the rest are not its hundredth part;
Because that poor and fasting thou didst enter
Into the field to sow there the good plant,
Which was a vine and has become a thorn!”
This being finished, the high, holy Court
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
So, giving me its benediction, singing,
Three times encircled me, when I was silent,
The apostolic light, at whose command
I spoken had, in speaking I so pleased him.
Paradiso: Canto XXV
If e’er it happen that the Poem Sacred,
To which both heaven and earth have set their hand,
So that it many a year... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
So that, the truth beholden of this court,
Hope, which below there rightfully enamours,
Thereby thou strengthen in thyself and others,
Say what it is, and how is flowering with it
Thy mind, and say from whence it came to thee.”
Thus did the second light again continue.
And the Compassionate, who pilote... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Isaiah saith, that each one garmented
In his own land shall be with twofold garments,
And his own land is this delightful life.
Thy brother, too, far more explicitly,
There where he treateth of the robes of white,
This revelation manifests to us.”
And first, and near the ending of these words,
“Spe... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Close at her side and in the Happy World!
Paradiso: Canto XXVI
While I was doubting for my vision quenched,
Out of the flame refulgent that had quenched it
Issued a breathing, that attentive made me,
Saying: “While thou recoverest the sense
Of seeing which in me thou hast consumed,
’Tis well that spe... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And I heard say: “By human intellect
And by authority concordant with it,
Of all thy loves reserve for God the highest.
But say again if other cords thou feelest,
Draw thee towards Him, that thou mayst proclaim
With how many teeth this love is biting thee.”
The holy purpose of the Eagle of Christ
N... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Devoutly as I can I supplicate thee
That thou wouldst speak to me; thou seest my wish;
And I, to hear thee quickly, speak it not.”
Sometimes an animal, when covered, struggles
So that his impulse needs must be apparent,
By reason of the wrappage following it;
And in like manner the primeval soul
Ma... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
As the sun changes quadrant, to the sixth.”
Paradiso: Canto XXVII
“Glory be to the Father, to the Son,
And Holy Ghost!” all Paradise began,
So that the melody inebriate made me.
What I beheld seemed unto me a smile
Of the universe; for my inebriation
Found entrance through the hearing and the sight.
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Nor that the keys which were to me confided
Should e’er become the escutcheon on a banner,
That should wage war on those who are baptized;
Nor I be made the figure of a seal
To privileges venal and mendacious,
Whereat I often redden and flash with fire.
In garb of shepherds the rapacious wolves
Are... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
The virtue that her look endowed me with
From the fair nest of Leda tore me forth,
And up into the swiftest heaven impelled me.
Its parts exceeding full of life and lofty
Are all so uniform, I cannot say
Which Beatrice selected for my place.
But she, who was aware of my desire,
Began, the while she... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
The tempest that has been so long awaited
Shall whirl the poops about where are the prows;
So that the fleet shall run its course direct,
And the true fruit shall follow on the flower.”
Paradiso: Canto XXVIII
After the truth against the present life
Of miserable mortals was unfolded
By her who doth i... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Behold that circle most conjoined to it,
And know thou, that its motion is so swift
Through burning love whereby it is spurred on.”
And I to her: “If the world were arranged
In the order which I see in yonder wheels,
What’s set before me would have satisfied me;
But in the world of sense we can perceiv... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Their coruscation all the sparks repeated,
And they so many were, their number makes
More millions than the doubling of the chess.
I heard them sing hosanna choir by choir
To the fixed point which holds them at the ‘Ubi,’
And ever will, where they have ever been.
And she, who saw the dubious meditation... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
With much more of the truth about these circles.”
Paradiso: Canto XXIX
At what time both the children of Latona,
Surmounted by the Ram and by the Scales,
Together make a zone of the horizon,
As long as from the time the zenith holds them
In equipoise, till from that girdle both
Changing their hemisph... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Nor could one reach, in counting, unto twenty
So swiftly, as a portion of these angels
Disturbed the subject of your elements.
The rest remained, and they began this art
Which thou discernest, with so great delight
That never from their circling do they cease.
The occasion of the fall was the accursed
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Each striveth for appearance, and doth make
His own inventions; and these treated are
By preachers, and the Evangel holds its peace.
One sayeth that the moon did backward turn,
In the Passion of Christ, and interpose herself
So that the sunlight reached not down below;
And lies; for of its own accord t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Hence, inasmuch as on the act conceptive
The affection followeth, of love the sweetness
Therein diversely fervid is or tepid.
The height behold now and the amplitude
Of the eternal power, since it hath made
Itself so many mirrors, where ’tis broken,
One in itself remaining as before.”
Paradiso: Canto ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Here shalt thou see the one host and the other
Of Paradise, and one in the same aspects
Which at the final judgment thou shalt see.”
Even as a sudden lightning that disperses
The visual spirits, so that it deprives
The eye of impress from the strongest objects,
Thus round about me flashed a living ligh... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Then as a folk who have been under masks
Seem other than before, if they divest
The semblance not their own they disappeared in,
Thus into greater pomp were changed for me
The flowerets and the sparks, so that I saw
Both of the Courts of Heaven made manifest.
O splendour of God! by means of which I saw... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Blind covetousness, that casts its spell upon you,
Has made you like unto the little child,
Who dies of hunger and drives off the nurse.
And in the sacred forum then shall be
A Prefect such, that openly or covert
On the same road he will not walk with him.
But long of God he will not be endured
In ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
I who to the divine had from the human,
From time unto eternity, had come,
From Florence to a people just and sane,
With what amazement must I have been filled!
Truly between this and the joy, it was
My pleasure not to hear, and to be mute.
And as a pilgrim who delighteth him
In gazing round the te... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Thou from a slave hast brought me unto freedom,
By all those ways, by all the expedients,
Whereby thou hadst the power of doing it.
Preserve towards me thy magnificence,
So that this soul of mine, which thou hast healed,
Pleasing to thee be loosened from the body.”
Thus I implored; and she, so far away... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
I saw there at their sports and at their songs
A beauty smiling, which the gladness was
Within the eyes of all the other saints;
And if I had in speaking as much wealth
As in imagining, I should not dare
To attempt the smallest part of its delight.
Bernard, as soon as he beheld mine eyes
Fixed and ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Behold now the high providence divine;
For one and other aspect of the Faith
In equal measure shall this garden fill.
And know that downward from that rank which cleaves
Midway the sequence of the two divisions,
Not by their proper merit are they seated;
But by another’s under fixed conditions;
For... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Look now into the face that unto Christ
Hath most resemblance; for its brightness only
Is able to prepare thee to see Christ.”
On her did I behold so great a gladness
Rain down, borne onward in the holy minds
Created through that altitude to fly,
That whatsoever I had seen before
Did not suspend me... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Opposite Peter seest thou Anna seated,
So well content to look upon her daughter,
Her eyes she moves not while she sings Hosanna.
And opposite the eldest household father
Lucia sits, she who thy Lady moved
When to rush downward thou didst bend thy brows.
But since the moments of thy vision fly,
Her... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And I, who never burned for my own seeing
More than I do for his, all of my prayers
Proffer to thee, and pray they come not short,
That thou wouldst scatter from him every cloud
Of his mortality so with thy prayers,
That the Chief Pleasure be to him displayed.
Still farther do I pray thee, Queen, who c... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
I think the keenness of the living ray
Which I endured would have bewildered me,
If but mine eyes had been averted from it;
And I remember that I was more bold
On this account to bear, so that I joined
My aspect with the Glory Infinite.
O grace abundant, by which I presumed
To fix my sight upon the... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest,
Sole knowest thyself, and, known unto thyself
And knowing, lovest and smilest on thyself!
That circulation, which being thus conceived
Appeared in thee as a reflected light,
When somewhat contemplated by mine eyes,
Within itself, of its own very colour
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
III
I enter, and I see thee in the gloom
Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine!
And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine.
The air is filled with some unknown perfume;
The congregation of the dead make room
For thee to pass; the votive tapers shine;
Like rooks that haunt Ravenna’s groves of ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
ALASKA INDIAN
DICTIONARY
COMPILED BY
CHARLES A. LEE
1896
Aleutian Indian And English
Dictionary
Common Words In The
Dialects Of The Aleutian Indian
Language
... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
C
Codfish.......................A-te-pa.
Chewing tobacco...............Agolo-kuluk.
Cartridge.....................Ba-tlouk.
Cover, to cover...............Ba-tua.
Church........................Chur-ko.
Coffee........................Caffie-amuk.
Close by, short distance......Lak-shini-tuk.
Church warden................... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
F
Fishing boat..................Ba-lia.
Father........................Baba rat.
Finger........................Cuni-umen.
Fire..........................Ca-nak.
Fill up with water............Emer-isna.
Foot..........................Et-kat.
Far away, long distance.......Qak shik-tok.
Festivity, dance..............Que-el... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
I
I thank you (Russian).........Bassie-pa.
I will not....................Buft-jini-toa.
I don't like to...............Beningen-rituk.
Ill humor.....................Comak luk.
I thank you for what I ate....Co-yana.
Inside, in the house..........Ca-manie.
I give to you.................Cun-nie.
In.......................... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
N
No good, bad..................Asi-duk.
Native--one man canoe.........Ca-yak.
Native--two man canoe.........Ca-yak-bak.
Native--three man canoe.......By-darkey.
Native--skin overcoat.........Barkey.
Native--water-proof...........Cama-linka.
Native--earth house...........Bearra-berrie.
Nothing, empty................B... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
T
To come, to return............Al-tierie-kuk.
To sit down...................Accoma-luten, also Sea-des.
To make, to work..............Ala-bur-tut.
To go home....................Aniten, also Toa-luten.
To travel, to get out.........An-na.
To leave, to walk.............Ayak-tuk.
To smoke, smoke...............Bo-juk.
T... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
U
Understand, to know...........Banie-mia.
Under, open, heaven, outside..Cla-inie.
Up town, in the village.......Cou anie.
Undress.......................Enak ten.
V
Very..........................An-gle.
Village.......................A-nit.
Vessel........................Skoo-nik.
W
Work, to make.................Ala-... | Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary: Common Words in the Dialects of the Aleutian Indian Language as Spoken by the Oogashik, Egashik, Anangashuk and Misremie Tribes Around Sulima River and Neighboring Parts of the Alaska Peninsula | Lee, Charles A. | ['en', 'ale'] | 33 | {'English language -- Dictionaries -- Aleut', 'Aleut language -- Dictionaries -- English'} | PG10040 | |||
THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK
A Comedy of Limitations
BY
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
"_To this new South, who values her high past in chief, as fit
foundation of that edifice whereon she labors day by day, and with
augmenting strokes_."
1915
TO
PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL
"Nightly I mark and praise, or great or small,
Su... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
And so the little china people remained together and were thankful for
the rivet in grandfather's neck, and continued to love each other until
they were broken to pieces.
PART ONE - PROPINQUITY
_"A singer, eh?... Well, well! but when he sings
Take jealous heed lest idiosyncrasies
Entinge and taint too deep his ... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
Remained only to deliberate whether this sop to the conventions should
be accepted as sufficient.
"At least," as Mrs. Ashmeade sagely observed, "we can combine
vituperation with common-sense, and remember it is not the first time a
Musgrave has figured in an entanglement of the sort. A lecherous race!
proverbial flutt... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
These details, indeed, were never officially made public, since a
discreet police force "found no clues"; for Fred Musgrave (of King's
Garden), as befitted the dead man's well-to-do brother, had been at no
little pains to insure constabulary shortsightedness, in preference to
having the nature of Scott Musgrave's recr... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
"MUSGRAVE, RUDOLPH VARTREY, editor; _b_. Lichfield, Sill., Mar. 14,
1856; _s_. William Sebastian and Martha (Allardyce) M; _g. s_.
Theodorick Q.M., gov. of Sill. 1805-8, judge of the General Ct.,
1808-11, judge Supreme Ct. of Appeals, 1811-50 and pres. Supreme Ct. of
Appeals, 1841-50; grad. King's Coll. and U. of Sill... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
His "Library manner" was modeled upon that which an eighteenth century
portrait would conceivably possess, should witchcraft set the canvas
breathing.
III
Also the story finds Colonel Musgrave in the company of his sister on a
warm April day, whilst these two sat upon the porch of the Musgrave home
in Lichfield, and... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
Miss Musgrave was somewhat ruffled. She was a homely little woman with
nothing of the ordinary Musgrave comeliness. Candor even compels the
statement that in her pudgy swarthy face there was a droll suggestion
of the pug-dog.
"I am sure," Miss Musgrave remonstrated, with placid dignity, "that you
know nothing whatever... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
But at this point, his sister interrupted him.
"I hadn't a notion," said she, "that you had even looked at the
photograph. And you seem to have it quite by heart, Rudolph,--and some
people admire dimples, you know, and, at any rate, her mother had red
hair, so Patricia isn't really responsible. I decided that it would... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
"She would be a very lucky girl if he did," said Miss Musgrave, apropos
of nothing in particular; and tossed her grizzly head.
"An earl, indeed!" said Miss Musgrave
IV
And this is how it came about:
Patricia Vartrey (a second cousin once removed of Colonel Rudolph
Musgrave's), as the older inhabitants of Lichfield w... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
But Agatha Musgrave, likewise, remembered the orphan cousin who had
been reared with her. She had loved Patricia Vartrey; and, in due time,
she wrote to Patricia's daughter,--in stately, antiquated phrases that
astonished the recipient not a little,--and the girl had answered. The
correspondence flourished. And it was... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
The colonel reached the Library undecided as to whether Miss Stapylton
had better breakfast in her room, or if it would be entirely proper for
her to come to the table in one of those fluffy lace-trimmed garments
such as Agatha affected at the day's beginning?
The question was a nice one. It was not as though servants... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
"Failure is not permitted," he was repeating in his soul....
"You're Cousin Rudolph, aren't you?" she asked. "How perfectly
entrancing! You see until to-day I always thought that if I had been
offered the choice between having cousins or appendicitis I would have
preferred to be operated on."
And Rudolph Musgrave note... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
Then, "I have no admiration for the Northmen," Rudolph Musgrave
declared, stiffly. "They were a rude and barbarous nation, proverbially
addicted to piracy and intemperance."
"My goodness gracious!" Miss Stapylton observed,--and now, for the
first time, he saw the teeth that were like grains of rice upon a pink
rose pe... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
She is not particularly interested in subtleties and soul analyses; she
merely chuckles rather complacently when a pair of eyes are drawn,
somehow, to another pair of eyes, and an indescribable something is
altered somewhere in some untellable fashion, and the world, suddenly,
becomes the most delightful place of resi... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
Came a tap on the door. Followed a vision of soft white folds and
furbelows and semi-transparencies and purple eyes and a pouting mouth.
"I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, Olaf," the owner of these
vanities complained. "Are you very busy? Cousin Agatha is about her
housekeeping, and I have read the afterno... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
"It is true," he conceded, "that there is a certain likeness."
"And he is a very beautiful boy," said Miss Stapylton, demurely. "Thank
you, Olaf; I begin to think you are a dangerous flatterer. But he is
only a boy, Olaf! And I had always thought of Gerald Musgrave as a
learned person with a fringe of whiskers all aro... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 | |
She looked up at him, with a wan smile. "A barren life!" she said: "ah,
yes, his was a wasted life! His books are all out-of-date now, and
nobody reads them, and it is just as if he had never been. A barren
life, Olaf! And that beautiful boy might have had so much fun--Life is
queer, isn't it, Olaf?"
Again he laughed,... | The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations | Cabell, James Branch | 1879 | 1958 | ['en'] | 25 | {'Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction'} | PG10041 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.