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or he will even say for many reasons i can delight in the good opinion of others perhaps because i love and honour them and rejoice in all their joys perhaps also because their good opinion endorses and strengthens my belief in my own good opinion perhaps because the good opinion of others even in cases where i do not ... |
in fact conformably to the slow rise of the democratic social order and its cause the blending of the blood of masters and slaves the originally noble and rare impulse of the masters to assign a value to themselves and to think well of themselves will now be more and more encouraged and extended but it has at all times... |
the most varied experience teaches it what are the qualities to which it principally owes the fact that it still exists in spite of all gods and men and has hitherto been victorious these qualities it calls virtues and these virtues alone it develops to maturity |
variations whether they be deviations into the higher finer and rarer or deteriorations and monstrosities appear suddenly on the scene in the greatest exuberance and splendour the individual dares to be individual and detach himself |
at this turning point of history there manifest themselves side by side and often mixed and entangled together a magnificent manifold virgin forest like up growth and up striving a kind of tropical tempo in the rivalry of growth and an extraordinary decay and self destruction owing to the savagely opposing and seemingl... |
nothing but new whys nothing but new hows no common formulas any longer misunderstanding and disregard in league with each other decay deterioration and the loftiest desires frightfully entangled the genius of the race overflowing from all the cornucopias of good and bad a portentous simultaneousness of spring and autu... |
danger is again present the mother of morality great danger this time shifted into the individual into the neighbour and friend into the street into their own child into their own heart into all the most personal and secret recesses of their desires and volitions |
what will the moral philosophers who appear at this time have to preach |
this is the problem of race |
in our very democratic or rather very plebeian age education and culture must be essentially the art of deceiving deceiving with regard to origin with regard to the inherited plebeianism in body and soul |
the noble soul accepts the fact of his egoism without question and also without consciousness of harshness constraint or arbitrariness therein but rather as something that may have its basis in the primary law of things if he sought a designation for it he would say it is justice itself |
on this account the people of one nation understand one another better than those belonging to different nations even when they use the same language or rather when people have lived long together under similar conditions of climate soil danger requirement toil there originates therefrom an entity that understands itse... |
the greater the danger the greater is the need of agreeing quickly and readily about what is necessary not to misunderstand one another in danger that is what cannot at all be dispensed with in intercourse |
also in all loves and friendships one has the experience that nothing of the kind continues when the discovery has been made that in using the same words one of the two parties has feelings thoughts intuitions wishes or fears different from those of the other |
whichever groups of sensations within a soul awaken most readily begin to speak and give the word of command these decide as to the general order of rank of its values and determine ultimately its list of desirable things |
a man's estimates of value betray something of the structure of his soul and wherein it sees its conditions of life its intrinsic needs |
profound suffering makes noble it separates one of the most refined forms of disguise is epicurism along with a certain ostentatious boldness of taste which takes suffering lightly and puts itself on the defensive against all that is sorrowful and profound |
the highest instinct for purity places him who is affected with it in the most extraordinary and dangerous isolation as a saint for it is just holiness the highest spiritualization of the instinct in question |
occasionally too the waking call comes too late the chance which gives permission to take action when their best youth and strength for action have been used up in sitting still and how many a one just as he sprang up has found with horror that his limbs are benumbed and his spirits are now too heavy |
and whoever thou art what is it that now pleases thee |
only name it whatever i have i offer thee |
but you misunderstand him when you complain about it |
there must be a sort of repugnance in me to believe anything definite about myself is there perhaps some enigma therein |
probably but fortunately nothing for my own teeth perhaps it betrays the species to which i belong but not to myself as is sufficiently agreeable to me but what has happened to you |
i do not know he said hesitatingly perhaps the harpies have flown over my table |
to suffocate with his memories to him who has the desires of a lofty and dainty soul and only seldom finds his table laid and his food prepared the danger will always be great nowadays however it is extraordinarily so |
and to choose for company that roguish and cheerful vice politeness |
he lives thy loss he dies from every limb mangled by thee lightnings of godhead shine from which thy darkness hath not where to hide |
quinci impara a stupirti |
in flesh was raimented how he was killed and buried from the dead how he arose to life with victory and reigned in heaven how all of us shall be glorious like him whose hearts to his are wed how they who die for love of reason give hypocrites tyrants sophists all who sell their neighbours ill for holiness to hell how t... |
this world's thick vapours whelm your eyes unworthy of that glorious show blind to his splendour bent upon his shame |
money is false and light unless it be bought by a man's own worthy qualities and blood is such that its corrupt disease and ignorant pretence are foul to see |
il popolo e una bestia |
the people is a beast of muddy brain that knows not its own force and therefore stands loaded with wood and stone the powerless hands of a mere child guide it with bit and rein one kick would be enough to break the chain but the beast fears and what the child demands it does nor its own terror understands confused and ... |
most wonderful |
that penance hath no blame which magdalen found sweet purging our shame self punishment is virtue all men know |
organ of rut not reason is the lord who from the body politic doth drain lust for himself instead of toil and pain leaving us lean as crickets on dry sward |
well too if he like love would filch our hoard with pleasure to ourselves sluicing our vein and vigour to perpetuate the strain of life by spilth of life within us stored |
heaven help that body which a little mind housed in a head lacking ears tongue and eyes and senseless but for smell can tyrannise |
due to thee their praise of maiden pure of teeming motherhood |
thou like arcturus steadfast in the skies with tardy sense guidest thy kingdom fair bearing alone the load of liberty |
he translated at an early age chiefly between eighteen forty five and eighteen forty nine a great number of poems by the italians contemporary with dante or preceding him and among other things he made a version of the whole vita nuova prose and verse |
this book in its original form was received with favour and settled the claim of rossetti to rank as a poetic translator or indeed as a poet in his own right |
the life blood of rhythmical translation is this commandment that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one |
the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation as far as possible with one more possession of beauty |
poetry not being an exact science literality of rendering is altogether secondary to this chief law |
often would he avail himself of any special grace of his own idiom and epoch if only his will belonged to him often would some cadence serve him but for his author's structure some structure but for his author's cadence often the beautiful turn of a stanza must be weakened to adopt some rhyme which will tally and he se... |
and if you have time it would be a great service to translate the analyses of the poems which i omitted |
on january twenty fifth he wrote many and many thanks for a most essential service most thoroughly performed |
my notes which you have taken the trouble of revising are of course quite paltry and useless |
it is therefore and on all accounts unnecessary to say much more of the work here than it says for itself |
throughout the vita nuova there is a strain like the first falling murmur which reaches the ear in some remote meadow and prepares us to look upon the sea |
a word should be said here of the title of dante's autobiography |
this has induced some editors of the vita nuova to explain the title as meaning early life |
thereafter this sonnet bred in me desire to write down in verse four other things touching my condition the which things it seemed to me that i had not yet made manifest |
which thing being thus there came a day when certain ladies to whom it was well known they having been with me at divers times in my trouble were met together for the pleasure of gentle company |
but when i still spake not one of them who before had been talking with another addressed me by my name saying to what end lovest thou this lady seeing that thou canst not support her presence |
and now that it hath pleased her to deny me this love my master of his great goodness hath placed all my beatitude there where my hope will not fail me |
then those ladies began to talk closely together and as i have seen snow fall among the rain so was their talk mingled with sighs |
and i declare that when i speak thereof love sheds such perfect sweetness over me that if my courage failed not certainly to him my listeners must be all resign'd |
whatever her sweet eyes are turned upon spirits of love do issue thence in flame which through their eyes who then may look on them pierce to the heart's deep chamber every one |
to her i wend along in whose much strength my weakness is made strong |
so to the road thou shalt be reconciled and find the lady and with the lady love |
the second begins here an angel the third here dear song i know |
the first part is divided into four |
in the third i say what it is i purpose to speak so as not to be impeded by faintheartedness |
in the fourth repeating to whom i purpose speaking i tell the reason why i speak to them |
in the second i tell what is understood of her on earth here my lady is desired |
this second part is divided into two for in the first i speak of her as regards the nobleness of her soul relating some of her virtues proceeding from her soul in the second i speak of her as regards the nobleness of her body narrating some of her beauties here love saith concerning her |
this second part is divided into two for in the one i speak of the eyes which are the beginning of love in the second i speak of the mouth which is the end of love |
and at the first it seemed to me that i saw certain faces of women with their hair loosened which called out to me thou shalt surely die after the which other terrible and unknown appearances said unto me thou art dead |
and so strong was my phantasy that i wept again in very truth and said with my true voice o excellent soul how blessed is he that now looketh upon thee |
whereby other ladies who were about the room becoming aware of my discomfort by reason of the moan that she made who indeed was of my very near kindred led her away from where i was and then set themselves to awaken me thinking that i dreamed and saying sleep no longer and be not disquieted |
when being aroused i opened mine eyes and knew that it had been a deception |
and my hue was such that they look'd at each other and thought of death saying under their breath most tenderly o let us comfort him then unto me what dream was thine that it hath shaken thee so much |
and therewithal such a bewilderment possess'd me that i shut mine eyes for peace and in my brain did cease order of thought and every healthful thing |
then saw i many broken hinted sights in the uncertain state i stepp'd into |
these wildering phantasies then carried me to see my lady dead |
the second part begins here i was a thinking the first part divides into two |
this lady's right name was joan but because of her comeliness or at least it was so imagined she was called of many primavera spring and went by that name among them |
and in his speech he laugh'd and laugh'd again then while it was his pleasure to remain i chanced to look the way he had drawn near and saw the ladies joan and beatrice approach me this the other following one and a second marvel instantly |
the second part begins here saying be now the third here then while it was his pleasure |
illustration long pepper |
long pepper this is the produce of a different plant from that which produces the black it consisting of the half ripe flower heads of what naturalists call piper longum and chaba |
originally the most valuable of these were found in the spice islands or moluccas of the indian ocean and were highly prized by the nations of antiquity |
the long pepper is less aromatic than the black but its oil is more pungent |
then add the yolks of the eggs well beaten stir them to the sauce but do not allow it to boil and serve very hot |
mode pare and slice the cucumbers as for the table sprinkle well with salt and let them remain for twenty four hours strain off the liquor pack in jars a thick layer of cucumbers and salt alternately tie down closely and when wanted for use take out the quantity required |
illustration the cucumber |
mode choose the greenest cucumbers and those that are most free from seeds put them in strong salt and water with a cabbage leaf to keep them down tie a paper over them and put them in a warm place till they are yellow then wash them and set them over the fire in fresh water with a very little salt and another cabbage ... |
put the sugar with one quarter pint of water in a saucepan over the fire remove the scum as it rises and add the lemon peel and ginger with the outside scraped off when the syrup is tolerably thick take it off the fire and when cold wipe the cucumbers dry and put them in |
seasonable this recipe should be used in june july or august |
solid rocks of salt are also found in various parts of the world and the county of chester contains many of these mines and it is from there that much of our salt comes |
some springs are so highly impregnated with salt as to have received the name of brine springs and are supposed to have become so by passing through the salt rocks below ground and thus dissolving a portion of this mineral substance |
mode put the milk in a very clean saucepan and let it boil |
beat the eggs stir to them the milk and pounded sugar and put the mixture into a jug |
place the jug in a saucepan of boiling water keep stirring well until it thickens but do not allow it to boil or it will curdle |
when it is sufficiently thick take it off as it should not boil |
illustration the lemon |
the lemon this fruit is a native of asia and is mentioned by virgil as an antidote to poison |
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