Word: cato
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENGLISH 7.- Reading. Pope. First Pastoral: Spring; Windsor Forest; An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; Elvira to Abelard; Prologue to Cato; The Dunciad, Books...
...Dante and Vergil entered the infernal regions, but Easter morning is breaking as they come forth into the bright light of Purgatory, out from the darkness of Hell into the light of Heaven. When Dante looked about he saw near him a venerable man, who revealed himself as Cato the Warden of the souls that enter Purgatory...
Dante and Vergil, after passing Cato, enter what Dante calls the Ante-Purgatory. This is probably an invention of the poet, and has a direct allegorical interpretation. Through this place the poets travel during two days, and here Dante meets his former friend Cassella, the musician, who sings them that famous song, which is, perhaps, the most exquisite, and deepest in meaning of any we find in the Divine Comedy. On the third day the poets pass the gate of Purgatory, and find before them three stairways, the first of polished marble; the second rougher and dark in color...
Passing on to the Stoics, the professor spoke of the doctrines of Caesar, who held the view that there was no eternal life, and of Cato and Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...
more imbued with the spirit of antiquity than Swinburne with all his Greek. And why? Because he read, not to become Greek, but drawn by a passion for the same ideal beauty that made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against...