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To the comparison of the two Romances, and the similarity of their
origin, I may now with confidence add the authority of Fontanini[AR] to
prove, that they are one and the same language. This author, speaking of
the ancient Gallic Romance, asserts that it is now spoken in the country
of the Grisons; though, not attend... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
The intercourse between Britain and Gaul is known to have been of a very
early date; for even in the first century we find, that the British
lawyers derived the greatest part of their knowledge from those of the
continent;[AT] while on the other hand, the Gallic Druids are known to
have resorted to Britain for instruc... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
As to Naples and Sicily, the expulsion of the Saracens by the Normans,
under Robert Guiscard in 1059, must have produced in that country nearly
the same effect, a similar event soon after brought about in England.
And in fact we have the authority of William of Apulia[BD] to prove,
that the conquerors used all their e... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
I shall now conclude this letter by observing, that far from presuming
that the Romance has been preserved so near its primitive state only in
the country of the Grisons, there is great reason to suppose that it
still exists in several other remote and unfrequented parts. When
Fontanini informs us[BL] that the ancient... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
1. eccistum meum fratrem Karlum, et in adjutum ero
2. _cist meon fradre Karlo, et in adjudab er_
3. cist mon frere Karle, et en adjude serai
4. _quist mieu frær Carlo, et in adgiud li saro_
5. quist meu frad'r Carl, et in adjudh saro
1. in quaque una causa, sic quomodo homo per directum
2. _in cadhuna cosa, si cum... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
1. vavit ante eum. Scilicet: Pax Sanctæ Ecclesiæ,
2. _devant lui. Co est a saveir: Pais a Sainte Eglise_,
3. tenet avant el. Co es da savir: Pæsh alla Sainta Ba-
1. cujuscunque forisfacturae quis reus sit hoc tempore, et
2. _de quel forfait que home out fait en cel tens, et_
3. selg.[BN] da quel sfarfatt que om a fatt... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
[Footnote D: Liv. lib. v. c. 34.]
[Footnote E: Other authors place the reign of this king 180 years
earlier.]
[Footnote F: Plin. lib. iii. c. 5. Justin. lib. xx. c. 5.]
[Footnote G: Cluver, Ital. Antiq. lib. i. c. 14.]
[Footnote H: A spurious derivation from the verb [Greek: leipo].]
[Footnote I: Probably by them pron... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
[Footnote X: _Julius Mons_, Scheuchzer Iter. Alp. p. 114.]
[Footnote Y:
Rhaetica nunc praebent Thraciaque arma metum.
OVID. Trist.
lib. ii. 226. Devota morti pectora liberae.
HOR. 4. lib. Od. xiv.]
[Footnote Z: Sprech. p. 52-55.]
[Footnote... | Account of the Romansh Language: In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. | Planta, Joseph | 1744 | 1827 | ['en'] | 18 | {'Raeto-Romance language -- Early works to 1800'} | PG10069 | |
PURGATORY
FROM THE DIVINE COMEDY
BY
Dante Alighieri
Translated by
THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A.
Contents
CANTO I.
CANTO II.
CANTO III.
CANTO IV.
CANTO V.
CANTO VI.
CANTO VII.
CANTO VIII.
CANTO IX.
CANTO X.
CANTO XI.
CANTO XII.
CANTO XIII.
CANTO XIV.
CANTO XV.
CANTO XVI.
CANTO XVII.
CANTO XVIII.
CANTO X... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Say who are ye, that stemming the blind stream,
Forth from th’ eternal prison-house have fled?”
He spoke and moved those venerable plumes.
“Who hath conducted, or with lantern sure
Lights you emerging from the depth of night,
That makes the infernal valley ever black?
Are the firm statutes of the dread abyss
Broken, ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
He disappear’d; and I myself uprais’d
Speechless, and to my guide retiring close,
Toward him turn’d mine eyes. He thus began;
“My son! observant thou my steps pursue.
We must retreat to rearward, for that way
The champain to its low extreme declines.”
The dawn had chas’d the matin hour of prime,
Which deaf before it, ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Lo how all human means he sets at naught!
So that nor oar he needs, nor other sail
Except his wings, between such distant shores.
Lo how straight up to heaven he holds them rear’d,
Winnowing the air with those eternal plumes,
That not like mortal hairs fall off or change!”
As more and more toward us came, more bright... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Not without purpose once more to return,
Thou find’st me, my Casella, where I am
Journeying this way;” I said, “but how of thee
Hath so much time been lost?” He answer’d straight:
“No outrage hath been done to me, if he
Who when and whom he chooses takes, me oft
This passage hath denied, since of just will
His will h... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Soon as his feet desisted (slack’ning pace),
From haste, that mars all decency of act,
My mind, that in itself before was wrapt,
Its thoughts expanded, as with joy restor’d:
And full against the steep ascent I set
My face, where highest to heav’n its top o’erflows.
The sun, that flar’d behind, with ruddy beam
Before m... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
I thus my guide address’d: “Upraise thine eyes,
Lo that way some, of whom thou may’st obtain
Counsel, if of thyself thou find’st it not!”
Straightway he look’d, and with free speech replied:
“Let us tend thither: they but softly come.
And thou be firm in hope, my son belov’d.”
Now was that people distant far in space
... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
When humbly I disclaim’d to have beheld
Him ever: “Now behold!” he said, and show’d
High on his breast a wound: then smiling spake.
“I am Manfredi, grandson to the Queen
Costanza: whence I pray thee, when return’d,
To my fair daughter go, the parent glad
Of Aragonia and Sicilia’s pride;
And of the truth inform her, if... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
A larger aperture ofttimes is stopp’d
With forked stake of thorn by villager,
When the ripe grape imbrowns, than was the path,
By which my guide, and I behind him close,
Ascended solitary, when that troop
Departing left us. On Sanleo’s road
Who journeys, or to Noli low descends,
Or mounts Bismantua’s height, must use ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Of truth, kind teacher!” I exclaim’d, “so clear
Aught saw I never, as I now discern
Where seem’d my ken to fail, that the mid orb
Of the supernal motion (which in terms
Of art is called the Equator, and remains
Ever between the sun and winter) for the cause
Thou hast assign’d, from hence toward the north
Departs, whe... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Before me now the Poet up the mount
Ascending, cried: “Haste thee, for see the sun
Has touch’d the point meridian, and the night
Now covers with her foot Marocco’s shore.”
CANTO V
Now had I left those spirits, and pursued
The steps of my Conductor, when beheld
Pointing the finger at me one exclaim’d:
“See how it see... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“O spirit! who go’st on to blessedness
With the same limbs, that clad thee at thy birth.”
Shouting they came, “a little rest thy step.
Look if thou any one amongst our tribe
Hast e’er beheld, that tidings of him there
Thou mayst report. Ah, wherefore go’st thou on?
Ah wherefore tarriest thou not? We all
By violence di... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Thou knowest how in the atmosphere collects
That vapour dank, returning into water,
Soon as it mounts where cold condenses it.
That evil will, which in his intellect
Still follows evil, came, and rais’d the wind
And smoky mist, by virtue of the power
Given by his nature. Thence the valley, soon
As day was spent, he c... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
He thus to me: “Both what I write is plain,
And these deceiv’d not in their hope, if well
Thy mind consider, that the sacred height
Of judgment doth not stoop, because love’s flame
In a short moment all fulfils, which he
Who sojourns here, in right should satisfy.
Besides, when I this point concluded thus,
By praying ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Look how that beast to felness hath relaps’d
From having lost correction of the spur,
Since to the bridle thou hast set thine hand,
O German Albert! who abandon’st her,
That is grown savage and unmanageable,
When thou should’st clasp her flanks with forked heels.
Just judgment from the stars fall on thy blood!
And be ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
If thou remember’st well and can’st see clear,
Thou wilt perceive thyself like a sick wretch,
Who finds no rest upon her down, but oft
Shifting her side, short respite seeks from pain.
CANTO VII
After their courteous greetings joyfully
Sev’n times exchang’d, Sordello backward drew
Exclaiming, “Who are ye?” “Before t... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“How chances this?” was answer’d; “who so wish’d
To ascend by night, would he be thence debarr’d
By other, or through his own weakness fail?”
The good Sordello then, along the ground
Trailing his finger, spoke: “Only this line
Thou shalt not overpass, soon as the sun
Hath disappear’d; not that aught else impedes
Thy g... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“He, so robust of limb, who measure keeps
In song, with him of feature prominent,
With ev’ry virtue bore his girdle brac’d.
And if that stripling who behinds him sits,
King after him had liv’d, his virtue then
From vessel to like vessel had been pour’d;
Which may not of the other heirs be said.
By James and Frederick ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Well I descried the whiteness on their heads;
But in their visages the dazzled eye
Was lost, as faculty that by too much
Is overpower’d. “From Mary’s bosom both
Are come,” exclaim’d Sordello, “as a guard
Over the vale, ganst him, who hither tends,
The serpent.” Whence, not knowing by which path
He came, I turn’d me ro... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
He spoke, and in his visage took the stamp
Of that right seal, which with due temperature
Glows in the bosom. My insatiate eyes
Meanwhile to heav’n had travel’d, even there
Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel
Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir’d:
“What there aloft, my son, has caught thy gaze?”
I answer... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
CANTO IX
Now the fair consort of Tithonus old,
Arisen from her mate’s beloved arms,
Look’d palely o’er the eastern cliff: her brow,
Lucent with jewels, glitter’d, set in sign
Of that chill animal, who with his train
Smites fearful nations: and where then we were,
Two steps of her ascent the night had past,
And now t... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Reader! thou markest how my theme doth rise,
Nor wonder therefore, if more artfully
I prop the structure! nearer now we drew,
Arriv’d’ whence in that part, where first a breach
As of a wall appear’d, I could descry
A portal, and three steps beneath, that led
For inlet there, of different colour each,
And one who watch... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Then of that hallow’d gate he thrust the door,
Exclaiming, “Enter, but this warning hear:
He forth again departs who looks behind.”
As in the hinges of that sacred ward
The swivels turn’d, sonorous metal strong,
Harsh was the grating; nor so surlily
Roar’d the Tarpeian, when by force bereft
Of good Metellus, thencefor... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
I passed athwart the bard, and drew me near,
That it might stand more aptly for my view.
There in the self-same marble were engrav’d
The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark,
That from unbidden office awes mankind.
Before it came much people; and the whole
Parted in seven quires. One sense cried, “Nay,”
Another, “Yes... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Reader! would not that amaz’d thou miss
Of thy good purpose, hearing how just God
Decrees our debts be cancel’d. Ponder not
The form of suff’ring. Think on what succeeds,
Think that at worst beyond the mighty doom
It cannot pass. “Instructor,” I began,
“What I see hither tending, bears no trace
Of human semblance, nor... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Thus for themselves and us good speed imploring,
Those spirits went beneath a weight like that
We sometimes feel in dreams, all, sore beset,
But with unequal anguish, wearied all,
Round the first circuit, purging as they go,
The world’s gross darkness off: In our behalf
If there vows still be offer’d, what can here
Fo... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
List’ning I bent my visage down: and one
(Not he who spake) twisted beneath the weight
That urg’d him, saw me, knew me straight, and call’d,
Holding his eyes With difficulty fix’d
Intent upon me, stooping as I went
Companion of their way. “O!” I exclaim’d,
“Art thou not Oderigi, art not thou
Agobbio’s glory, glory of ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“When at his glory’s topmost height,” said he,
“Respect of dignity all cast aside,
Freely He fix’d him on Sienna’s plain,
A suitor to redeem his suff’ring friend,
Who languish’d in the prison-house of Charles,
Nor for his sake refus’d through every vein
To tremble. More I will not say; and dark,
I know, my words are, ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
O fond Arachne! thee I also saw
Half spider now in anguish crawling up
Th’ unfinish’d web thou weaved’st to thy bane!
O Rehoboam! here thy shape doth seem
Louring no more defiance! but fear-smote
With none to chase him in his chariot whirl’d.
Was shown beside upon the solid floor
How dear Alcmaeon forc’d his mother ra... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
A scanty few are they, who when they hear
Such tidings, hasten. O ye race of men
Though born to soar, why suffer ye a wind
So slight to baffle ye? He led us on
Where the rock parted; here against my front
Did beat his wings, then promis’d I should fare
In safety on my way. As to ascend
That steep, upon whose brow the ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Shadow nor image there is seen; all smooth
The rampart and the path, reflecting nought
But the rock’s sullen hue. “If here we wait
For some to question,” said the bard, “I fear
Our choice may haply meet too long delay.”
Then fixedly upon the sun his eyes
He fastn’d, made his right the central point
From whence to move... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
So most to stir compassion, not by sound
Of words alone, but that, which moves not less,
The sight of mis’ry. And as never beam
Of noonday visiteth the eyeless man,
E’en so was heav’n a niggard unto these
Of his fair light; for, through the orbs of all,
A thread of wire, impiercing, knits them up,
As for the taming of... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
She thus: “Who then amongst us here aloft
Hath brought thee, if thou weenest to return?”
“He,” answer’d I, “who standeth mute beside me.
I live: of me ask therefore, chosen spirit,
If thou desire I yonder yet should move
For thee my mortal feet.”—“Oh!” she replied,
“This is so strange a thing, it is great sign
That Go... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
As one, who tidings hears of woe to come,
Changes his looks perturb’d, from whate’er part
The peril grasp him, so beheld I change
That spirit, who had turn’d to listen, struck
With sadness, soon as he had caught the word.
His visage and the other’s speech did raise Desire in me to know the
names of both, whereof with ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
We knew those gentle spirits at parting heard
Our steps. Their silence therefore of our way
Assur’d us. Soon as we had quitted them,
Advancing onward, lo! a voice that seem’d
Like vollied light’ning, when it rives the air,
Met us, and shouted, “Whosoever finds
Will slay me,” then fled from us, as the bolt
Lanc’d sudde... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Marvel not, if the family of heav’n,”
He answer’d, “yet with dazzling radiance dim
Thy sense it is a messenger who comes,
Inviting man’s ascent. Such sights ere long,
Not grievous, shall impart to thee delight,
As thy perception is by nature wrought
Up to their pitch.” The blessed angel, soon
As we had reach’d him, h... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Thou,” I had said, “content’st me,” when I saw
The other round was gain’d, and wond’ring eyes
Did keep me mute. There suddenly I seem’d
By an ecstatic vision wrapt away;
And in a temple saw, methought, a crowd
Of many persons; and at th’ entrance stood
A dame, whose sweet demeanour did express
A mother’s love, who sa... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
So on we journey’d through the evening sky
Gazing intent, far onward, as our eyes
With level view could stretch against the bright
Vespertine ray: and lo! by slow degrees
Gath’ring, a fog made tow’rds us, dark as night.
There was no room for ’scaping; and that mist
Bereft us, both of sight and the pure air.
CANTO XVI... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“I was of Lombardy, and Marco call’d:
Not inexperienc’d of the world, that worth
I still affected, from which all have turn’d
The nerveless bow aside. Thy course tends right
Unto the summit:” and, replying thus,
He added, “I beseech thee pray for me,
When thou shalt come aloft.” And I to him:
“Accept my faith for pled... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“O Marco!” I replied, shine arguments
Convince me: and the cause I now discern
Why of the heritage no portion came
To Levi’s offspring. But resolve me this
Who that Gherardo is, that as thou sayst
Is left a sample of the perish’d race,
And for rebuke to this untoward age?”
“Either thy words,” said he, “deceive; or els... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
E’en as a sleep breaks off, if suddenly
New radiance strike upon the closed lids,
The broken slumber quivering ere it dies;
Thus from before me sunk that imagery
Vanishing, soon as on my face there struck
The light, outshining far our earthly beam.
As round I turn’d me to survey what place
I had arriv’d at, “Here ye m... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Creator, nor created being, ne’er,
My son,” he thus began, “was without love,
Or natural, or the free spirit’s growth.
Thou hast not that to learn. The natural still
Is without error; but the other swerves,
If on ill object bent, or through excess
Of vigour, or defect. While e’er it seeks
The primal blessings, or wit... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
CANTO XVIII
The teacher ended, and his high discourse
Concluding, earnest in my looks inquir’d
If I appear’d content; and I, whom still
Unsated thirst to hear him urg’d, was mute,
Mute outwardly, yet inwardly I said:
“Perchance my too much questioning offends”
But he, true father, mark’d the secret wish
By diffidenc... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
The steep already turning, from behind,
Rush’d on. With fury and like random rout,
As echoing on their shores at midnight heard
Ismenus and Asopus, for his Thebes
If Bacchus’ help were needed; so came these
Tumultuous, curving each his rapid step,
By eagerness impell’d of holy love.
Soon they o’ertook us; with such sw... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
CANTO XIX
It was the hour, when of diurnal heat
No reliques chafe the cold beams of the moon,
O’erpower’d by earth, or planetary sway
Of Saturn; and the geomancer sees
His Greater Fortune up the east ascend,
Where gray dawn checkers first the shadowy cone;
When ’fore me in my dream a woman’s shape
There came, with l... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“What aileth thee, that still thou look’st to earth?”
Began my leader; while th’ angelic shape
A little over us his station took.
“New vision,” I replied, “hath rais’d in me
Surmisings strange and anxious doubts, whereon
My soul intent allows no other thought
Or room or entrance.”—“Hast thou seen,” said he,
“That old ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
My knees I stoop’d, and would have spoke; but he,
Ere my beginning, by his ear perceiv’d
I did him reverence; and “What cause,” said he,
“Hath bow’d thee thus!”—“Compunction,” I rejoin’d.
“And inward awe of your high dignity.”
“Up,” he exclaim’d, “brother! upon thy feet
Arise: err not: thy fellow servant I,
(Thine and... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“I,” answer’d he, “will tell thee, not for hell,
Which thence I look for; but that in thyself
Grace so exceeding shines, before thy time
Of mortal dissolution. I was root
Of that ill plant, whose shade such poison sheds
O’er all the Christian land, that seldom thence
Good fruit is gather’d. Vengeance soon should come,... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“O sovran Master! when shall I rejoice
To see the vengeance, which thy wrath well-pleas’d
In secret silence broods?—While daylight lasts,
So long what thou didst hear of her, sole spouse
Of the Great Spirit, and on which thou turn’dst
To me for comment, is the general theme
Of all our prayers: but when it darkens, the... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
CANTO XXI
The natural thirst, ne’er quench’d but from the well,
Whereof the woman of Samaria crav’d,
Excited: haste along the cumber’d path,
After my guide, impell’d; and pity mov’d
My bosom for the ’vengeful deed, though just.
When lo! even as Luke relates, that Christ
Appear’d unto the two upon their way,
New-rise... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Now,” said the instructor sage, “I see the net
That takes ye here, and how the toils are loos’d,
Why rocks the mountain and why ye rejoice.
Vouchsafe, that from thy lips I next may learn,
Who on the earth thou wast, and wherefore here
So many an age wert prostrate.”—“In that time,
When the good Titus, with Heav’n’s K... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Now down he bent t’ embrace my teacher’s feet;
But he forbade him: “Brother! do it not:
Thou art a shadow, and behold’st a shade.”
He rising answer’d thus: “Now hast thou prov’d
The force and ardour of the love I bear thee,
When I forget we are but things of air,
And as a substance treat an empty shade.”
CANTO XXII
... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
To whom the sovran of the pastoral song:
“While thou didst sing that cruel warfare wag’d
By the twin sorrow of Jocasta’s womb,
From thy discourse with Clio there, it seems
As faith had not been shine: without the which
Good deeds suffice not. And if so, what sun
Rose on thee, or what candle pierc’d the dark
That thou ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
They on before me went; I sole pursued,
List’ning their speech, that to my thoughts convey’d
Mysterious lessons of sweet poesy.
But soon they ceas’d; for midway of the road
A tree we found, with goodly fruitage hung,
And pleasant to the smell: and as a fir
Upward from bough to bough less ample spreads,
So downward thi... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Lo!” to myself I mus’d, “the race, who lost
Jerusalem, when Mary with dire beak
Prey’d on her child.” The sockets seem’d as rings,
From which the gems were drops. Who reads the name
Of man upon his forehead, there the M
Had trac’d most plainly. Who would deem, that scent
Of water and an apple, could have prov’d
Power... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Whence I replied: “If thou recall to mind
What we were once together, even yet
Remembrance of those days may grieve thee sore.
That I forsook that life, was due to him
Who there precedes me, some few evenings past,
When she was round, who shines with sister lamp
To his, that glisters yonder,” and I show’d
The sun. “Ti... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Spirit!” said I, “it seems as thou wouldst fain
Speak with me. Let me hear thee. Mutual wish
To converse prompts, which let us both indulge.”
He, answ’ring, straight began: “Woman is born,
Whose brow no wimple shades yet, that shall make
My city please thee, blame it as they may.
Go then with this forewarning. If aug... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
As from a troop of well-rank’d chivalry
One knight, more enterprising than the rest,
Pricks forth at gallop, eager to display
His prowess in the first encounter prov’d
So parted he from us with lengthen’d strides,
And left me on the way with those twain spirits,
Who were such mighty marshals of the world.
When he beyo... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
As when, to harbinger the dawn, springs up
On freshen’d wing the air of May, and breathes
Of fragrance, all impregn’d with herb and flowers,
E’en such a wind I felt upon my front
Blow gently, and the moving of a wing
Perceiv’d, that moving shed ambrosial smell;
And then a voice: “Blessed are they, whom grace
Doth so i... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Open thy bosom to the truth that comes.
Know soon as in the embryo, to the brain,
Articulation is complete, then turns
The primal Mover with a smile of joy
On such great work of nature, and imbreathes
New spirit replete with virtue, that what here
Active it finds, to its own substance draws,
And forms an individual s... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Then from the bosom of the burning mass,
“O God of mercy!” heard I sung; and felt
No less desire to turn. And when I saw
Spirits along the flame proceeding, I
Between their footsteps and mine own was fain
To share by turns my view. At the hymn’s close
They shouted loud, “I do not know a man;”
Then in low voice again t... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
That friendly greeting parted, ere dispatch
Of the first onward step, from either tribe
Loud clamour rises: those, who newly come,
Shout “Sodom and Gomorrah!” these, “The cow
Pasiphae enter’d, that the beast she woo’d
Might rush unto her luxury.” Then as cranes,
That part towards the Riphaean mountains fly,
Part towar... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Those dulcet lays,” I answer’d, “which, as long
As of our tongue the beauty does not fade,
Shall make us love the very ink that trac’d them.”
“Brother!” he cried, and pointed at a shade
Before him, “there is one, whose mother speech
Doth owe to him a fairer ornament.
He in love ditties and the tales of prose
Without ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
I, when I heard his saying, was as one
Laid in the grave. My hands together clasp’d,
And upward stretching, on the fire I look’d,
And busy fancy conjur’d up the forms
Erewhile beheld alive consum’d in flames.
Th’ escorting spirits turn’d with gentle looks
Toward me, and the Mantuan spake: “My son,
Here torment thou ma... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Nor many stairs were overpass, when now
By fading of the shadow we perceiv’d
The sun behind us couch’d: and ere one face
Of darkness o’er its measureless expanse
Involv’d th’ horizon, and the night her lot
Held individual, each of us had made
A stair his pallet: not that will, but power,
Had fail’d us, by the nature o... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
CANTO XXVIII
Through that celestial forest, whose thick shade
With lively greenness the new-springing day
Attemper’d, eager now to roam, and search
Its limits round, forthwith I left the bank,
Along the champain leisurely my way
Pursuing, o’er the ground, that on all sides
Delicious odour breath’d. A pleasant air,
T... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
As when a lady, turning in the dance,
Doth foot it featly, and advances scarce
One step before the other to the ground;
Over the yellow and vermilion flowers
Thus turn’d she at my suit, most maiden-like,
Valing her sober eyes, and came so near,
That I distinctly caught the dulcet sound.
Arriving where the limped water... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“The water, thou behold’st, springs not from vein,
As stream, that intermittently repairs
And spends his pulse of life, but issues forth
From fountain, solid, undecaying, sure;
And by the will omnific, full supply
Feeds whatsoe’er On either side it pours;
On this devolv’d with power to take away
Remembrance of offence... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
While through that wilderness of primy sweets
That never fade, suspense I walk’d, and yet
Expectant of beatitude more high,
Before us, like a blazing fire, the air
Under the green boughs glow’d; and, for a song,
Distinct the sound of melody was heard.
O ye thrice holy virgins! for your sakes
If e’er I suffer’d hunger,... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
All sang one song: “Blessed be thou among
The daughters of Adam! and thy loveliness
Blessed for ever!” After that the flowers,
And the fresh herblets, on the opposite brink,
Were free from that elected race; as light
In heav’n doth second light, came after them
Four animals, each crown’d with verdurous leaf.
With six ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Whenas the car was o’er against me, straight.
Was heard a thund’ring, at whose voice it seem’d
The chosen multitude were stay’d; for there,
With the first ensigns, made they solemn halt.
CANTO XXX
Soon as the polar light, which never knows
Setting nor rising, nor the shadowy veil
Of other cloud than sin, fair orname... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Dante, weep not, that Virgil leaves thee: nay,
Weep thou not yet: behooves thee feel the edge
Of other sword, and thou shalt weep for that.”
As to the prow or stern, some admiral
Paces the deck, inspiriting his crew,
When ’mid the sail-yards all hands ply aloof;
Thus on the left side of the car I saw,
(Turning me at ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Upon the chariot’s right edge still she stood,
Immovable, and thus address’d her words
To those bright semblances with pity touch’d:
“Ye in th’ eternal day your vigils keep,
So that nor night nor slumber, with close stealth,
Conveys from you a single step in all
The goings on of life: thence with more heed
I shape min... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
A little space refraining, then she spake:
“What dost thou muse on? Answer me. The wave
On thy remembrances of evil yet
Hath done no injury.” A mingled sense
Of fear and of confusion, from my lips
Did such a “Yea” produce, as needed help
Of vision to interpret. As when breaks
In act to be discharg’d, a cross-bow bent
... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
I stood, as children silent and asham’d
Stand, list’ning, with their eyes upon the earth,
Acknowledging their fault and self-condemn’d.
And she resum’d: “If, but to hear thus pains thee,
Raise thou thy beard, and lo! what sight shall do!”
With less reluctance yields a sturdy holm,
Rent from its fibers by a blast, that... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Full of amaze, and joyous, while my soul
Fed on the viand, whereof still desire
Grows with satiety, the other three
With gesture, that declar’d a loftier line,
Advanc’d: to their own carol on they came
Dancing in festive ring angelical.
“Turn, Beatrice!” was their song: “O turn
Thy saintly sight on this thy faithful o... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
Through the high wood, now void (the more her blame,
Who by the serpent was beguil’d) I past
With step in cadence to the harmony
Angelic. Onward had we mov’d, as far
Perchance as arrow at three several flights
Full wing’d had sped, when from her station down
Descended Beatrice. With one voice
All murmur’d “Adam,” circ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“A little while thou shalt be forester here:
And citizen shalt be forever with me,
Of that true Rome, wherein Christ dwells a Roman
To profit the misguided world, keep now
Thine eyes upon the car; and what thou seest,
Take heed thou write, returning to that place.”
Thus Beatrice: at whose feet inclin’d
Devout, at her ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
CANTO XXXIII
“The heathen, Lord! are come!” responsive thus,
The trinal now, and now the virgin band
Quaternion, their sweet psalmody began,
Weeping; and Beatrice listen’d, sad
And sighing, to the song’, in such a mood,
That Mary, as she stood beside the cross,
Was scarce more chang’d. But when they gave her place
T... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
“Thy reason slumbers, if it deem this height
And summit thus inverted of the plant,
Without due cause: and were not vainer thoughts,
As Elsa’s numbing waters, to thy soul,
And their fond pleasures had not dyed it dark
As Pyramus the mulberry, thou hadst seen,
In such momentous circumstance alone,
God’s equal justice m... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 26 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1006 | |
[Illustration]
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
by Edward Eggleston
AUTHOR OF “TRUE STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE AND ADVENTURE”
“A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY” AND “A HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS”
1895
Contents
PREFACE
The First Governor in Boston
Marquette in ... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
As far as possible the words chosen have been such as are not difficult
to the little reader, either from their length or their unfamiliarity.
The sentences and paragraphs are short. Learning to read is like
climbing a steep hill, and it is a great relief to the panting child to
find frequent breathing places.
It is o... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
The larger words have been divided by hyphens when a separation into
syllables is likely to help the learner. The use of the hyphen has been
regulated entirely with a view to its utility. After a word not too
difficult has been made familiar by its repeated occurrence, the
hyphens are omitted.
STORIES OF GREAT AMERIC... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
The time for the fast day came. But there was now plenty of food. The
fast day was turned into a thanks-giving day.
One day a man sent a very cross letter to Gov-ern-or Win-throp.
Win-throp sent it back to him. He said, “I cannot keep a letter that
might make me angry.” Then the man that had written the cross letter
w... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
The two little canoes now turned their bows down the river. Some-times
they saw great herds of buf-fa-loes. Some of these came to the bank of
the river to look at the men in the canoes. They had long, shaggy
manes, which hung down over their eyes.
For two weeks the trav-el-ers paddled down the river. In all this time
... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
The next morning six hundred Indians went to the canoes to tell the
Frenchmen good-by. They gave Mar-quette a young Indian slave. And they
gave him a peace pipe to carry with him.
INDIAN PICTURES.
When Mar-quette and his men left the Il-li-nois, they went on down the
river. The friendly Il-li-nois had told them that... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
Soon after this Penn got into a ship and sailed from England. He sailed
to Penn-syl-va-ni-a. When he came there, he sent word to the tribes of
Indians to come to meet him.
The Indians met under a great elm tree on the bank of the river.
Indians like to hold their solemn meetings out of doors. They sit on
the ground. T... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
The Indians could not write. But they had their way of putting down
things that they wished to have re-mem-bered. They gave Penn a belt of
shell beads. These beads are called wam-pum. Some wam-pum is white.
Some is purple.
They made this belt for Penn of white beads. In the middle of the belt
they made a picture of pu... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
Then there were animals with fur on their backs. The people killed
these and sold their skins. In this way many made their living.
Other people spent their time in cutting down the trees. They sawed the
trees into timbers and boards. Some of it they split into staves to
make barrels. They sent the staves and other sor... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
The father of Miss Lucas did not live in Car-o-li-na. He was gov-ern-or
of one of the islands of the West Indies. Miss Lucas was fond of trying
new things. She often got seeds from her father. These she planted in
South Carolina.
Her father sent her some seeds of the in-di-go plant. She sowed some of
these in March. B... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
His father made soap and candles. Little Ben Frank-lin had to cut wicks
for the candles. He also filled the candle molds. And he sold soap and
candles, and ran on errands. But when he was not at work he spent his
time in reading good books. What little money he got he used to buy
books with.
He read the old story of “... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 | |
Long before he was a man, people said, “How much the boy knows!” This
was because—
He did not waste his time.
He read good books.
He saw things for himself.
HOW FRANKLIN FOUND OUT THINGS.
Frank-lin thought that ants know how to tell things to one another. He
thought that they talk by some kind of signs. When an ant ... | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans | Eggleston, Edward | 1837 | 1902 | ['en'] | 125 | {'United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature'} | PG10070 |
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