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Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria.... For a weak and tender soul it is the greatest of misfortunes ever to have known the greatest happiness. But though it is sad indeed to lose the beloved at the beginning of life, it is even more terrible later on when the springs of life are running dry.
Alberi ii. 3, p. 330, writes: 'Conviene ricordarsi quello che soleva dire Sisto IV., che al papa bastava solo la mano con la penna e l'inchiostro, per avere quella somma che vuole. Cp. Aen. Sylv. Picc. Ep. i. 66: 'Nihil est quod absque argento Romana Curia dedat; nam et ipsæ manus impositiones et Spiritus Sancti dona venduntur, nec peccatorum venia nisi nummatis impenditur.
May God preserve this people those noble patriots, of which Wadsworth, Wade, Potter of Wisconsin, Stanton, Governor Andrew, and many others are the types, when the country will be ruined and rended by the firm, Lincoln-Seward-McClellan, to realize the pang, Nessun maggior' dolor' che ricordarsi dell tempo felice Nella miseria. O, I know what it is! Mr. Seward's letter, October 28, to Messrs.
joy represents, and represents faithfully, three words containing six syllables, del tempo felice: retell stands for ricordarsi, and in sorrow for nella miseria, or, three syllables for six; so that, by means of eight syllables, is given a full and complete translation of what in Italian takes up seventeen.
You see their cheerful biographer doing all he knows, and the light he shoots across the blackness only makes it blacker. Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi di tempo felice Nella miseria; and in the end the biographer with all his cheerfulness succumbs to the tradition of misery, and even adds a dark contribution of his own, the suggestion of an unhappy love-affair of Charlotte's.
The future hath no joys in store for us; and may bereave us of some of the few faint pleasures that still are ours. What then is left us old before our time but to banquet on the past? And are they not watered by our tears? The poet tells us "Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." But it is not so.
When we enjoy ourselves we forget ourselves, forget that we exist; we pass over into another, an alien being, we alienate ourselves. And we become centred in ourselves again, we return to ourselves, only by suffering. Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria And it is true.
Francesca's exclamation to Dante is thus rendered by Mr. Longfellow: "And she to me: There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery." "Ed ella a me: Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." Inferno, V. 121-123.
A bereavement of this kind gives one a glimpse of the feeling those must have, who have seen all drop round them friend after friend, and are left to end their pilgrimage alone." Even in persons of naturally robust health, and with no "Ricordarsi di tempo felice Nella miseria " to wear, with slow dropping but perpetual pain, upon their spirits, the nerves and appetite will give way in solitude.
But, then, think how differently the forty-five years had been filled out in either case. Maisie had been forced to ricordarsi del tempo felice through so many years of miseria. Phoebe's journey across the desert of Life had paused at many an oasis, and their images remained in her mind to blunt the tooth of Memory.
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