The Solitudes of Nature and of Man Volume 1; Or, the Loneliness of Human Life book

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The Solitudes of Nature and of Man Volume 1; Or, the Loneliness of Human Life book

The Solitudes of Nature and of Man Volume 1; Or, the Loneliness of Human Life book

The Solitudes of Nature and of Man Volume 1; Or, the Loneliness of Human Life by William Rounseville Alger

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Author: William Rounseville Alger
Page Count: 136 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781235918629
File size: 35 Mb
File Name: The.Solitudes.of.Nature.and.of.Man.Volume.1;.Or,.the.Loneliness.of.Human.Life.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...means to pay the fee, yet consoled by the hope of an enduring fame, is pathetic and exciting. How touching, too, are his words in the treatise " De Vulgari Eloquio "!--" I grieve over all sufferers; but I have most pity for those, whoever they may be, who, languishing in exile, never see their native land again, except in dreams." Yet, with the force of his invincible soul, he rallies upon divine resources, and enjoys ideal substitutes and equivalents for what he is 'deprived of in actuality. "Shall I not enjoy," he exclaims, "the light of the sun and the stars? Shall I not be able to speculate on most delightful truth under whatever sky I may be?" There are truly two Dantes, --one, the young Dante of the "Vita Nuova"; the other, the mature Dante of the " Divina Commedia." The first is represented in the portrait by Giotto, with its meditative depth, feminine softness and sadness; the second, in the more familiar traditional efligy, with its haggard, recalcitrant features, iron firmness, and burning intensity, its mystic Woe and supernal pity. Both of these characters are abundantly revealed by his own pen, since almost everything he wrote has an autobiographic value, both direct and in direct. He often narrates the events. of his life, and records his feelings and judgments, in the first person. Furthermore, the contents of his works take the form of experiences passing through his soul, and reproduced by his art in stereoscopic photographs that at once reflect ' the delicate lineaments of his genius and betray the tremendous power of his passions. The dominant characteristic, in a moral aspect, of the younger Dante, --of Dante as he was by nature and culture, --is the tendere...

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