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" I have gone about like a mendicant ; showing, against my will, the wound with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill-deserving on whom it is inflicted. "
Miscellaneous Essays: Reprinted from the English Originals, with the Author ... - Page 388
by Sir Archibald Alison - 1850
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 816 pages
...his immortal work was written. The mortifications he underwent during this long and dismal exile arc thus described by himself: — " Wandering over almost...like a mendicant ; showing against my will the wound wifh which fortune has smitten me, and which is often falsely imputed to the demerit of him by whom...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 77

1855 - 782 pages
...beggared Dante thus speaks of his condition : — " Wandering over almost every part to which this onr language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant,...with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill - deserving on whom it is inflicted. I have, indeed, been a vessel without sail,...
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Works of the British Poets: The vision of Dante Alighieri, tr. by H.F. Cary

Robert Walsh - 1822 - 402 pages
...and to terminate the time allotted to me on earth. Wandering over almost every part, to which this our language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant...with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill-deserving, on whom it is inflicted. I have, indeed, been a vessel without sail,...
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Miscellaneous Observations and Opinions on the Continent

Richard Duppa - 1825 - 248 pages
...gone about like a mendicant ; wandering over almost every part to which our language extends ; shewing against my will the wound with which fortune has smitten me, and which is so often imputed to his ill deserving, on whom it is inflicted." The precise time of his death is not...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 7

Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 pages
...Padua and Verona, and writes of himself at this period, "wandering over almost every part to which this our language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant,...will the wound with which fortune has smitten me." He at last found a permanent refuge at Ravenna, with Guido Novella da Polenta, a prince who should...
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Travels on the Continent, Sicily, and the Lipari Islands

Richard Duppa - 1829 - 560 pages
...gone about like a mendicant ; wandering over almost every part to which our language extends ; shewing against my will the wound with which fortune has smitten me, and which so often is imputed to his ill deserving on whom it is inflicted." The precise time of his death is...
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The Vision : Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...and to terminate the time allotted to me on earth. Wandering over almost every part, to which this our language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant...with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill-deserving, on whom it is inflicted. I have, indeed, been a vessel without sail and...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 348 pages
...and to terminate the time allotted to me on earth. Wandering over almost every part, to which this our language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant,...with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill-deserving on whom it is inflicted. I have, indeed, been a vessc' without sail and...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 354 pages
...and to terminate the time allotted to me on earth. Wandering over almost every part, to which this our language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant,...with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill-deserving on whom it is inflicted. I have, indeed, been a vessel without sail and...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 11

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...and to terminate the time allotted to me on earth. Wandering over almost every part, to which this our language extends, I have gone about like a mendicant,...with which fortune has smitten me, and which is often imputed to his ill-deserving on whom it is inflicted. I have, indeed, been a vessel without sail and...
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