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I'll tell you how it is with the pictures of women we fall in love with at
first sight.
----We a'n't talking about pictures,--said the landlady's daughter,--
we're talking about women.
I understood that we were speaking of love at sight,--I remarked, mildly.
--Now, as all a man knows about a woman whom he looks at is ... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
This is the farewell my friend, the Poet, read to his and our friend, the
Poet:--
A GOOD TIME GOING!
Brave singer of the coming time,
Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,
Crowned with the noblest wreath of rhyme,
The holly-leaf of Ayrshire's peasant,
Good-bye! Good-bye!--Our hearts and hands,
Our lips in hones... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
Enough! To speed a parting friend
'Tis vain alike to speak and listen;--
Yet stay,--these feeble accents blend
With rays of light from eyes that glisten.
Good-bye! once more,--and kindly tell
In words of peace the young world's story,--
And say, besides,--we love too well
Our mother's soil, our fathers' glory!... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
For those no death-bed's lingering shade;
At Honor's trumpet-call,
With knitted brow and lifted blade
In Glory's arms they fall.
For these no clashing falchions bright,
No stirring battle-cry;
The bloodless stabber calls by night,--
Each answers, "Here am I!"
For those the sculptor's laurelled bust,
The buil... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
If the pious men who founded the American Tract Society had been told that
within forty years they would be watchful of their publications, lest, by
inadvertence, anything disrespectful might be spoken of the African Slave-
trade,--that they would consider it an ample equivalent for compulsory
dumbness on the vices of... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
But if we accept the alternative offered by the advocates of strict
construction, we shall not find that their case is strengthened. Claiming
that where the meaning of an instrument is doubtful, it should be
interpreted according to the contemporary understanding of its framers,
they argue that it would be absurd to s... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
If a strict construction of the words "all Evangelical Christians" be
insisted on, we are at a loss to see where the Committee could draw the
dividing line between what might be offensive and what allowable. The
Society publish tracts in which the study of the Scriptures is enforced
and their denial to the laity by Ro... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
The Society is not asked to disseminate antislavery doctrines, but simply
to be even-handed between master and slave, and, since they have
recommended Sambo and Toney to be obedient to Mr. Legree, to remind him in
turn that he also has duties toward the bodies and souls of his bondmen.
But we are told that the time ha... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
We Americans are very fond of this glue of compromise. Like so many quack
cements, it is advertised to make the mended parts of the vessel stronger
than those which have never been broken, but, like them, it will not stand
hot water,--and as the question of Slavery is sure to plunge all who
approach it, even with the ... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
We do not wonder at the division which has taken place in the Tract
Society, nor do we regret it. The ideal life of a Christian is possible to
very few, but we naturally look for a nearer approach to it in those who
associate together to disseminate the doctrines which they believe to be
its formative essentials, and ... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
What claim has Slavery to immunity from discussion? We are told that
discussion is dangerous. Dangerous to what? Truth invites it, courts the
point of the Ithuriel-spear, whose touch can but reveal more clearly the
grace and grandeur of her angelic proportions. The advocates of Slavery
have taken refuge in the last co... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
It is not partisanship, it is not fanaticism, that has forced this matter
of Anti-slavery upon the American people; it is the spirit of
Christianity, which appeals from prejudices and predilections to the moral
consciousness of the individual man; that spirit elastic as air,
penetrative as heat, invulnerable as sunshi... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
"The excavations on the Via Appia Nuova, which I mentioned in a former
letter, prove very interesting, and have already resulted in most
important discoveries. The spot is at the second milestone outside of the
gate of St. John Lateran. The field is on the left of the road going
towards Albano, and in it are several b... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
"But the most remarkable discovery is an old Roman tomb, by far the finest
I have seen in its preservation and perfection. It is about eighteen feet
square, has been lined and paved with white marble, some of which still
remains. The lofty ceiling is covered with bas-reliefs in stucco, of
charming grace and spirit, re... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
It is remarkable that a church restored so late as the time of Leo III.
[A.D. 795-816] should have been so lost without being utterly destroyed,
and so buried under the slowly-accumulating soil of the Campagna, that the
very tradition of the existence of its remains should have disappeared,
and its discovery have been... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
And it is easy to have all this away from the seashore. The best tanks, so
far as we know, that are made in this country, are those of Mr. C.E.
Hammett, of Newport, Rhode Island. But the tank is of little importance,
if one cannot get the water, the seaweed, and the stock; and therefore Mr.
Hammett undertakes to suppl... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
A camel's-hair brush, a bent spoon on a long handle, a sponge tied to a
stick, and one or two other instruments which use will suggest, are all
that are needed for keeping the sides of the tank free from growth or
removing obnoxious substances from its bottom.
If, on receiving the animals, any of them should appear ex... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
All that another mind could do for us by way of teaching Art would be to
save us time,--first, by its experience, in anticipating our failures;
second, by its trained accuracy, to correct our errors of expression more
promptly than our afterthought would do it,--and to systematize our
perceptions for us by showing us ... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
The chapter on Perspective is full and well illustrated, and useful to
architectural or mechanical draughtsmen, may-be, but little so to artists.
There are, indeed, no laws of perspective which the careful draughtsman
from Nature need ever apply, for his eye will show him the tendency of
lines and the relative magnitu... | The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics | Various | ['en'] | 15 | {'American periodicals'} | PG10079 | |||
PARADISE
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 XI... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
I suffer’d it not long, and yet so long
That I beheld it bick’ring sparks around,
As iron that comes boiling from the fire.
And suddenly upon the day appear’d
A day new-ris’n, as he, who hath the power,
Had with another sun bedeck’d the sky.
Her eyes fast fix’d on the eternal wheels,
Beatrice stood unmov’d; and I with... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
So said, she turn’d toward the heav’n her face.
CANTO II
All ye, who in small bark have following sail’d,
Eager to listen, on the advent’rous track
Of my proud keel, that singing cuts its way,
Backward return with speed, and your own shores
Revisit, nor put out to open sea,
Where losing me, perchance ye may remain
B... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
She somewhat smil’d, then spake: “If mortals err
In their opinion, when the key of sense
Unlocks not, surely wonder’s weapon keen
Ought not to pierce thee; since thou find’st, the wings
Of reason to pursue the senses’ flight
Are short. But what thy own thought is, declare.”
Then I: “What various here above appears,
Is... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“The virtue and motion of the sacred orbs,
As mallet by the workman’s hand, must needs
By blessed movers be inspir’d. This heaven,
Made beauteous by so many luminaries,
From the deep spirit, that moves its circling sphere,
Its image takes an impress as a seal:
And as the soul, that dwells within your dust,
Through mem... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Straight to the shadow which for converse seem’d
Most earnest, I addressed me, and began,
As one by over-eagerness perplex’d:
“O spirit, born for joy! who in the rays
Of life eternal, of that sweetness know’st
The flavour, which, not tasted, passes far
All apprehension, me it well would please,
If thou wouldst tell me... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Then saw I clearly how each spot in heav’n
Is Paradise, though with like gracious dew
The supreme virtue show’r not over all.
But as it chances, if one sort of food
Hath satiated, and of another still
The appetite remains, that this is ask’d,
And thanks for that return’d; e’en so did I
In word and motion, bent from he... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
As Daniel, when the haughty king he freed
From ire, that spurr’d him on to deeds unjust
And violent; so look’d Beatrice then.
“Well I discern,” she thus her words address’d,
“How contrary desires each way constrain thee,
So that thy anxious thought is in itself
Bound up and stifled, nor breathes freely forth.
Thou arg... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“That, to the eye of man, our justice seems
Unjust, is argument for faith, and not
For heretic declension. To the end
This truth may stand more clearly in your view,
I will content thee even to thy wish
“If violence be, when that which suffers, nought
Consents to that which forceth, not for this
These spirits stood ex... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO V
“If beyond earthly wont, the flame of love
Illume me, so that I o’ercome thy power
Of vision, marvel not: but learn the cause
In that perfection of the sight, which soon
As apprehending, hasteneth on to reach
The good it apprehends. I well discern,
How in thine intellect already shines
The light eternal, whi... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Such were the words that Beatrice spake:
These ended, to that region, where the world
Is liveliest, full of fond desire she turn’d.
Though mainly prompt new question to propose,
Her silence and chang’d look did keep me dumb.
And as the arrow, ere the cord is still,
Leapeth unto its mark; so on we sped
Into the second ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO VI
“After that Constantine the eagle turn’d
Against the motions of the heav’n, that roll’d
Consenting with its course, when he of yore,
Lavinia’s spouse, was leader of the flight,
A hundred years twice told and more, his seat
At Europe’s extreme point, the bird of Jove
Held, near the mountains, whence he issue... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“What following and in its next bearer’s gripe
It wrought, is now by Cassius and Brutus
Bark’d off in hell, and by Perugia’s sons
And Modena’s was mourn’d. Hence weepeth still
Sad Cleopatra, who, pursued by it,
Took from the adder black and sudden death.
With him it ran e’en to the Red Sea coast;
With him compos’d the... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Within the pearl, that now encloseth us,
Shines Romeo’s light, whose goodly deed and fair
Met ill acceptance. But the Provencals,
That were his foes, have little cause for mirth.
Ill shapes that man his course, who makes his wrong
Of other’s worth. Four daughters were there born
To Raymond Berenger, and every one
Bec... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Brother! no eye of man not perfected,
Nor fully ripen’d in the flame of love,
May fathom this decree. It is a mark,
In sooth, much aim’d at, and but little kenn’d:
And I will therefore show thee why such way
Was worthiest. The celestial love, that spume
All envying in its bounty, in itself
With such effulgence blazet... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Now, to fulfil each wish of thine, remains
I somewhat further to thy view unfold.
That thou mayst see as clearly as myself.
“I see, thou sayst, the air, the fire I see,
The earth and water, and all things of them
Compounded, to corruption turn, and soon
Dissolve. Yet these were also things create,
Because, if what we... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Never was blast from vapour charged with cold,
Whether invisible to eye or no,
Descended with such speed, it had not seem’d
To linger in dull tardiness, compar’d
To those celestial lights, that tow’rds us came,
Leaving the circuit of their joyous ring,
Conducted by the lofty seraphim.
And after them, who in the van ap... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“My liege, it doth enhance the joy thy words
Infuse into me, mighty as it is,
To think my gladness manifest to thee,
As to myself, who own it, when thou lookst
Into the source and limit of all good,
There, where thou markest that which thou dost speak,
Thence priz’d of me the more. Glad thou hast made me.
Now make int... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO IX
After solution of my doubt, thy Charles,
O fair Clemenza, of the treachery spake
That must befall his seed: but, “Tell it not,”
Said he, “and let the destin’d years come round.”
Nor may I tell thee more, save that the meed
Of sorrow well-deserv’d shall quit your wrongs.
And now the visage of that saintly li... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
She ended, and appear’d on other thoughts
Intent, re-ent’ring on the wheel she late
Had left. That other joyance meanwhile wax’d
A thing to marvel at, in splendour glowing,
Like choicest ruby stricken by the sun,
For, in that upper clime, effulgence comes
Of gladness, as here laughter: and below,
As the mind saddens, ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO X
Looking into his first-born with the love,
Which breathes from both eternal, the first Might
Ineffable, whence eye or mind
Can roam, hath in such order all dispos’d,
As none may see and fail to enjoy. Raise, then,
O reader! to the lofty wheels, with me,
Thy ken directed to the point, whereat
One motion strik... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Never was heart in such devotion bound,
And with complacency so absolute
Dispos’d to render up itself to God,
As mine was at those words: and so entire
The love for Him, that held me, it eclips’d
Beatrice in oblivion. Naught displeas’d
Was she, but smil’d thereat so joyously,
That of her laughing eyes the radiance bra... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XI
O fond anxiety of mortal men!
How vain and inconclusive arguments
Are those, which make thee beat thy wings below
For statues one, and one for aphorisms
Was hunting; this the priesthood follow’d, that
By force or sophistry aspir’d to rule;
To rob another, and another sought
By civil business wealth; one moi... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Think now of one, who were a fit colleague,
To keep the bark of Peter in deep sea
Helm’d to right point; and such our Patriarch was.
Therefore who follow him, as he enjoins,
Thou mayst be certain, take good lading in.
But hunger of new viands tempts his flock,
So that they needs into strange pastures wide
Must spread... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“If such one wheel of that two-yoked car,
Wherein the holy church defended her,
And rode triumphant through the civil broil.
Thou canst not doubt its fellow’s excellence,
Which Thomas, ere my coming, hath declar’d
So courteously unto thee. But the track,
Which its smooth fellies made, is now deserted:
That mouldy moth... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
The song fulfill’d its measure; and to us
Those saintly lights attended, happier made
At each new minist’ring. Then silence brake,
Amid th’ accordant sons of Deity,
That luminary, in which the wondrous life
Of the meek man of God was told to me;
And thus it spake: “One ear o’ th’ harvest thresh’d,
And its grain safely... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Did I advance no further than this point,
‘How then had he no peer?’ thou might’st reply.
But, that what now appears not, may appear
Right plainly, ponder, who he was, and what
(When he was bidden ‘Ask’), the motive sway’d
To his requesting. I have spoken thus,
That thou mayst see, he was a king, who ask’d
For wisdom... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XIV
From centre to the circle, and so back
From circle to the centre, water moves
In the round chalice, even as the blow
Impels it, inwardly, or from without.
Such was the image glanc’d into my mind,
As the great spirit of Aquinum ceas’d;
And Beatrice after him her words
Resum’d alternate: “Need there is (tho’... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
So ready and so cordial an “Amen,”
Followed from either choir, as plainly spoke
Desire of their dead bodies; yet perchance
Not for themselves, but for their kindred dear,
Mothers and sires, and those whom best they lov’d,
Ere they were made imperishable flame.
And lo! forthwith there rose up round about
A lustre over ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Perhaps my saying over bold appears,
Accounting less the pleasure of those eyes,
Whereon to look fulfilleth all desire.
But he, who is aware those living seals
Of every beauty work with quicker force,
The higher they are ris’n; and that there
I had not turn’d me to them; he may well
Excuse me that, whereof in my excus... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
I turn’d me to Beatrice; and she heard
Ere I had spoken, smiling, an assent,
That to my will gave wings; and I began
“To each among your tribe, what time ye kenn’d
The nature, in whom naught unequal dwells,
Wisdom and love were in one measure dealt;
For that they are so equal in the sun,
From whence ye drew your radia... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“In such compos’d and seemly fellowship,
Such faithful and such fair equality,
In so sweet household, Mary at my birth
Bestow’d me, call’d on with loud cries; and there
In your old baptistery, I was made
Christian at once and Cacciaguida; as were
My brethren, Eliseo and Moronto.
“From Valdipado came to me my spouse,
A... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XVII
Such as the youth, who came to Clymene
To certify himself of that reproach,
Which had been fasten’d on him, (he whose end
Still makes the fathers chary to their sons),
E’en such was I; nor unobserv’d was such
Of Beatrice, and that saintly lamp,
Who had erewhile for me his station mov’d;
When thus by lady:... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“First refuge thou must find, first place of rest,
In the great Lombard’s courtesy, who bears
Upon the ladder perch’d the sacred bird.
He shall behold thee with such kind regard,
That ’twixt ye two, the contrary to that
Which falls ’twixt other men, the granting shall
Forerun the asking. With him shalt thou see
That m... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
The brightness, where enclos’d the treasure smil’d,
Which I had found there, first shone glisteningly,
Like to a golden mirror in the sun;
Next answer’d: “Conscience, dimm’d or by its own
Or other’s shame, will feel thy saying sharp.
Thou, notwithstanding, all deceit remov’d,
See the whole vision be made manifest.
And... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
To Beatrice on my right l bent,
Looking for intimation or by word
Or act, what next behoov’d; and did descry
Such mere effulgence in her eyes, such joy,
It past all former wont. And, as by sense
Of new delight, the man, who perseveres
In good deeds doth perceive from day to day
His virtue growing; I e’en thus perceiv’... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Sweet star! what glorious and thick-studded gems
Declar’d to me our justice on the earth
To be the effluence of that heav’n, which thou,
Thyself a costly jewel, dost inlay!
Therefore I pray the Sovran Mind, from whom
Thy motion and thy virtue are begun,
That he would look from whence the fog doth rise,
To vitiate thy... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“O animals of clay! O spirits gross I
The primal will, that in itself is good,
Hath from itself, the chief Good, ne’er been mov’d.
Justice consists in consonance with it,
Derivable by no created good,
Whose very cause depends upon its beam.”
As on her nest the stork, that turns about
Unto her young, whom lately she ha... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XX
When, disappearing, from our hemisphere,
The world’s enlightener vanishes, and day
On all sides wasteth, suddenly the sky,
Erewhile irradiate only with his beam,
Is yet again unfolded, putting forth
Innumerable lights wherein one shines.
Of such vicissitude in heaven I thought,
As the great sign, that marsh... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
I, though my doubting were as manifest,
As is through glass the hue that mantles it,
In silence waited not: for to my lips
“What things are these?” involuntary rush’d,
And forc’d a passage out: whereat I mark’d
A sudden lightening and new revelry.
The eye was kindled: and the blessed sign
No more to keep me wond’ring ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
So, by that form divine, was giv’n to me
Sweet medicine to clear and strengthen sight,
And, as one handling skillfully the harp,
Attendant on some skilful songster’s voice
Bids the chords vibrate, and therein the song
Acquires more pleasure; so, the whilst it spake,
It doth remember me, that I beheld
The pair of bless... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Unwillingly from question I refrain,
To her, by whom my silence and my speech
Are order’d, looking for a sign: whence she,
Who in the sight of Him, that seeth all,
Saw wherefore I was silent, prompted me
T’ indulge the fervent wish; and I began:
“I am not worthy, of my own desert,
That thou shouldst answer me; but for... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXII
Astounded, to the guardian of my steps
I turn’d me, like the chill, who always runs
Thither for succour, where he trusteth most,
And she was like the mother, who her son
Beholding pale and breathless, with her voice
Soothes him, and he is cheer’d; for thus she spake,
Soothing me: “Know’st not thou, thou a... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
I answ’ring, thus; “Thy gentle words and kind,
And this the cheerful semblance, I behold
Not unobservant, beaming in ye all,
Have rais’d assurance in me, wakening it
Full-blossom’d in my bosom, as a rose
Before the sun, when the consummate flower
Has spread to utmost amplitude. Of thee
Therefore entreat I, father! to ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
So, reader, as my hope is to return
Unto the holy triumph, for the which
I ofttimes wail my sins, and smite my breast,
Thou hadst been longer drawing out and thrusting
Thy finger in the fire, than I was, ere
The sign, that followeth Taurus, I beheld,
And enter’d its precinct. O glorious stars!
O light impregnate with ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXIII
E’en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower
Has, in her nest, sat darkling through the night,
With her sweet brood, impatient to descry
Their wished looks, and to bring home their food,
In the fond quest unconscious of her toil:
She, of the time prevenient, on the spray,
That overhangs their couch, with ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
I was as one, when a forgotten dream
Doth come across him, and he strives in vain
To shape it in his fantasy again,
Whenas that gracious boon was proffer’d me,
Which never may be cancel’d from the book,
Wherein the past is written. Now were all
Those tongues to sound, that have on sweetest milk
Of Polyhymnia and her s... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Such close was to the circling melody:
And, as it ended, all the other lights
Took up the strain, and echoed Mary’s name.
The robe, that with its regal folds enwraps
The world, and with the nearer breath of God
Doth burn and quiver, held so far retir’d
Its inner hem and skirting over us,
That yet no glimmer of its maj... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“O saintly sister mine! thy prayer devout
Is with so vehement affection urg’d,
Thou dost unbind me from that beauteous sphere.”
Such were the accents towards my lady breath’d
From that blest ardour, soon as it was stay’d:
To whom she thus: “O everlasting light
Of him, within whose mighty grasp our Lord
Did leave the k... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Even so glittering and so round,” said I,
“I not a whit misdoubt of its assay.”
Next issued from the deep imbosom’d splendour:
“Say, whence the costly jewel, on the which
Is founded every virtue, came to thee.”
“The flood,” I answer’d, “from the Spirit of God
Rain’d down upon the ancient bond and new,—
Here is the re... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXV
If e’er the sacred poem that hath made
Both heav’n and earth copartners in its toil,
And with lean abstinence, through many a year,
Faded my brow, be destin’d to prevail
Over the cruelty, which bars me forth
Of the fair sheep-fold, where a sleeping lamb
The wolves set on and fain had worried me,
With other... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Both scriptures, new and ancient,” I reply’d;
“Propose the mark (which even now I view)
For souls belov’d of God. Isaias saith,
That, in their own land, each one must be clad
In twofold vesture; and their proper lands this delicious life.
In terms more full,
And clearer far, thy brother hath set forth
This revelation... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXVI
With dazzled eyes, whilst wond’ring I remain’d,
Forth of the beamy flame which dazzled me,
Issued a breath, that in attention mute
Detain’d me; and these words it spake: “’Twere well,
That, long as till thy vision, on my form
O’erspent, regain its virtue, with discourse
Thou compensate the brief delay. Sa... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
I ended, and therewith a song most sweet
Rang through the spheres; and “Holy, holy, holy,”
Accordant with the rest my lady sang.
And as a sleep is broken and dispers’d
Through sharp encounter of the nimble light,
With the eye’s spirit running forth to meet
The ray, from membrane on to the membrane urg’d;
And the upsta... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXVII
Then “Glory to the Father, to the Son,
And to the Holy Spirit,” rang aloud
Throughout all Paradise, that with the song
My spirit reel’d, so passing sweet the strain:
And what I saw was equal ecstasy;
One universal smile it seem’d of all things,
Joy past compare, gladness unutterable,
Imperishable life of... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Then by the spirit, that doth never leave
Its amorous dalliance with my lady’s looks,
Back with redoubled ardour were mine eyes
Led unto her: and from her radiant smiles,
Whenas I turn’d me, pleasure so divine
Did lighten on me, that whatever bait
Or art or nature in the human flesh,
Or in its limn’d resemblance, can ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXVII
So she who doth imparadise my soul,
Had drawn the veil from off our pleasant life,
And bar’d the truth of poor mortality;
When lo! as one who, in a mirror, spies
The shining of a flambeau at his back,
Lit sudden ore he deem of its approach,
And turneth to resolve him, if the glass
Have told him true, and... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“It is no marvel, if thy fingers foil’d
Do leave the knot untied: so hard ’tis grown
For want of tenting.” Thus she said: “But take,”
She added, “if thou wish thy cure, my words,
And entertain them subtly. Every orb
Corporeal, doth proportion its extent
Unto the virtue through its parts diffus’d.
The greater blessedne... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXIX
No longer than what time Latona’s twins
Cover’d of Libra and the fleecy star,
Together both, girding the’ horizon hang,
In even balance from the zenith pois’d,
Till from that verge, each, changing hemisphere,
Part the nice level; e’en so brief a space
Did Beatrice’s silence hold. A smile
Bat painted on he... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Know thou, that, from the first, these substances,
Rejoicing in the countenance of God,
Have held unceasingly their view, intent
Upon the glorious vision, from the which
Naught absent is nor hid: where then no change
Of newness with succession interrupts,
Remembrance there needs none to gather up
Divided thought and ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“But (for we far have wander’d) let us seek
The forward path again; so as the way
Be shorten’d with the time. No mortal tongue
Nor thought of man hath ever reach’d so far,
That of these natures he might count the tribes.
What Daniel of their thousands hath reveal’d
With finite number infinite conceals.
The fountain at... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
She (such as I bequeath her to the bruit
Of louder trump than mine, which hasteneth on,
Urging its arduous matter to the close),
Her words resum’d, in gesture and in voice
Resembling one accustom’d to command:
“Forth from the last corporeal are we come
Into the heav’n, that is unbodied light,
Light intellectual replet... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
O prime enlightener! thou who crav’st me strength
On the high triumph of thy realm to gaze!
Grant virtue now to utter what I kenn’d,
There is in heav’n a light, whose goodly shine
Makes the Creator visible to all
Created, that in seeing him alone
Have peace; and in a circle spreads so far,
That the circumference w... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
CANTO XXXI
In fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then
Before my view the saintly multitude,
Which in his own blood Christ espous’d. Meanwhile
That other host, that soar aloft to gaze
And celebrate his glory, whom they love,
Hover’d around; and, like a troop of bees,
Amid the vernal sweets alighting now,
Now, cluster... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
So rov’d my ken, and its general form
All Paradise survey’d: when round I turn’d
With purpose of my lady to inquire
Once more of things, that held my thought suspense,
But answer found from other than I ween’d;
For, Beatrice, when I thought to see,
I saw instead a senior, at my side,
Rob’d, as the rest, in glory. Joy... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
Had I a tongue in eloquence as rich,
As is the colouring in fancy’s loom,
’Twere all too poor to utter the least part
Of that enchantment. When he saw mine eyes
Intent on her, that charm’d him, Bernard gaz’d
With so exceeding fondness, as infus’d
Ardour into my breast, unfelt before.
CANTO XXXII
Freely the sage, tho... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“Here, silent as thou art, I know thy doubt;
And gladly will I loose the knot, wherein
Thy subtle thoughts have bound thee. From this realm
Excluded, chalice no entrance here may find,
No more shall hunger, thirst, or sorrow can.
A law immutable hath establish’d all;
Nor is there aught thou seest, that doth not fit,
E... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
“But (for the vision hasteneth so an end)
Here break we off, as the good workman doth,
That shapes the cloak according to the cloth:
And to the primal love our ken shall rise;
That thou mayst penetrate the brightness, far
As sight can bear thee. Yet, alas! in sooth
Beating thy pennons, thinking to advance,
Thou backwa... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
The eyes, that heav’n with love and awe regards,
Fix’d on the suitor, witness’d, how benign
She looks on pious pray’rs: then fasten’d they
On th’ everlasting light, wherein no eye
Of creature, as may well be thought, so far
Can travel inward. I, meanwhile, who drew
Near to the limit, where all wishes end,
The ardour o... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 20 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1007 | |
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MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER
By HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH
1918
[Illustration: Jeanne d'Arc.--the spirit of the women of the Allies.]
TO THE ABLE AND DEVOTED WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
Who have stood behind the armies of the Allies through the years of the
Great War as an unswerving second line of defense a... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
A useful blending of Allied women. Miss Kathleen Burke (Scotch)
exhibiting the X-ray ambulance equipped by Mrs. Ayrton (English) and
Madame Curie (French).
FOREWORD
It is a real pleasure to write this foreword to the book which Mrs.
Harriot Stanton Blatch dedicates to the women of Great Britain and
France; to the wo... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
No man who is not blind can fail to see that we have entered a new day
in the great epic march of the ages. For good or for evil the old days
have passed; and it rests with us, the men and women now alive, to
decide whether in the new days the world is to be a better or a worse
place to live in, for our descendants.
I... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
She shows why women must unstintedly give their labor in order to win
this war; and why the labor of the women must be used to back up both
the labor and the fighting work of the men, for the fighting men leave
gaps in the labor world which must be filled by the work of women. She
says in another sentence worth rememb... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
Mrs. Blatch has herself rendered a very real service by this appeal that
women should serve, and that men should let them serve.
Theodore Roosevelt
I
OUR FOE
The nations in which women have influenced national aims face the nation
that glorifies brute force. America opposes the exaltation of the
glittering sword; op... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
The overbearing spirit of the Prussian military caste has drilled a race
to worship might; men are overbearing towards women, women towards
children, and the laws reflect the cruelties of the strong towards
the weak.
As the recent petition of German suffragists to the Reichstag states,
their country stands "in the low... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
The man responding to his stern upbringing is in turn cruel to his
inferiors, and full of subterfuge in dealing with equals. He is at home
in the intrigues which have startled the world. In such a society the
frank and gentle go to the wall, or--get into trouble and emigrate. We
have profited--let us not forget it--by... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
Another little straw showing the set of the wind: we were sitting, four
Americans, one lovely early summer day, in a restaurant at Swinemünde.
We had the window open, looking out over the sea. At the next table were
some officers, one of whom with an "Es zieht," but not with a "by your
leave," came over to our table a... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
I believed the Bryce report--every word of it!
And I hate the system that has so bent and crippled a great race.
Revenge we must not feel, that would be to innoculate ourselves with the
enemy's virus. But let us be awake to the fact that might making right
cuts athwart our ideals. German Kultur, through worship of eff... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
Then, too, while Europe suffers loss of labor, as do we, when men are
mobilized, our situation is peculiarly poignant, for when our armies are
gone they are gone. At first this was true in Europe. Men entered the
army and were employed as soldiers only. After a time it was realized
that the war would not be short, tha... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
The business situation in the United States upon its entrance into the
war was the antithesis of this. For over a year, depression had been
superseded by increased industry, high wages, and greater demand for
labor. The country as measured by the ordinary financial signs, by its
commerce, by its labor market, was more... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 | |
[Illustration: They wear the uniforms of the Edinburgh trams and the
New York City subway and trolley guards, with pride and purpose.]
While it is quite true that shifting of man-power is needed, mere
shuffling of the cards, as labor leaders suggest, won't give a bigger
pack. Fifty-two cards it remains, though the Jac... | Mobilizing Woman-Power | Blatch, Harriot Stanton | 1856 | 1940 | ['en'] | 24 | {'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'} | PG10080 |
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