No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved only for students. The Italians forever twitch at Dante's sleeves tr...
It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is its def...
Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print
Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.
Believes the world is against him. Nothing
I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.
He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.
When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?
Lo giorno se n'andava - Day was departing... Dante slows his deliberation as he prepares to enter the infernal realms for the first time: ... e io sol uno - and only I alone... -how lonely he felt! He...
A man's library opens up his character to the world.
When I ply the cutlass and make the equivalent of sixpence, idiot conscience applauds me. But if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds by writing, idiot conscience wails over my neglect and the da...
Obsession of a strong-hearted woman, Mr. Dolby, can be more dangerous than ten men.
There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw it, was only the failure of an imperfectly made being to keep a perfect law.
We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two, Lowell suggested.
Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madne...
It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But the poem comes nearer to us than this. It is there real history of a brother...
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The B...
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