School Education (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from School EducationWe read in the Purgatorio, Canto I., how Virgil was directed to prepare Dante for his difficult ascent:"Va dunque, e fa che tu costui ricinghed'un giunco schietto, e che gli lavi il visosi che ogni sucidume quindi stinghe:Questa isoletta intomo ad imo ad imo, laggiu, cola dove la batte l'onda, porta de' giunchi sopra il mollc limo.Null' altra pianta, che facesse frondao indurasse, vi puote aver vita, pero che alle percosse non seconda.Venimmo poi in sul litro diserto, Quivi mi cinse si come altrui piacque:o maraviglia I che qual egli scelsel'umile pianta, cotal si rinacqueSubitamente la onde la svelse."Go, then, and see thou gird this one aboutWith a smooth rush, and that thou wash his face, So that thou cleanse away all stain therefrom.This little island round about its base, Below there, yonder where the billow beats it, Doth rushes bear upon its washy ooze, No other plant that putteth forth he leaf, Or that doth indurate, can there have life, Because it yieldeth not unto the shocks.Then came we down upon the desert shore.There he begirt me as the other pleased, O marvellous! for even as he culledThe humble plant, such it sprang up againSuddenly there where he uprooted it."(Longfellow's Translation.)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.