The Divine Comedy, Volume 1G. Routledge, 1891 - 760 pages |
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abyss already answered art thou bank beast began behoves Brunetto Latini CANTO Charon Ciacco Count Ugolino crag cried Dante Dante's dark dead death descended didst ditch Divina Commedia Divine Comedy dost thou doth drew earth Eighth Circle eternal eyes face father fear feet fire flame Florence Florentine foot Forlì Geryon Ghibellines Guido Guido Cavalcanti Guido da Montefeltro hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven Hell hemisphere hither honor lament Leader look Lord Malebolge Malebranche Master moved never pass perchance Phlegethon Phlegyas Pistoia pity plied poem Poet punishment round seemed shade side sinners soul speak speech spirit Styx sweet tell thee thine things thou art thou canst thou hast thou seest thou shalt thou wishest thyself tongue took torments translation turned unto valley Virgil weary weeping whereat wherefore Whereon woeful wont words wretched
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Page 126 - Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
Page 107 - A Wizard, of such dreaded fame, That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame!
Page 47 - When I was at the foot of his tomb he looked at me a little; and then, almost contemptuously, he asked me: "Who were thy ancestors?
Page 143 - O brothers,' said I, ' who through a hundred thousand perils have reached the West, to this so little vigil of your senses that remains be ye unwilling to deny the experience, following the sun, of the world that hath no people.
Page 22 - Why then dost thou cry out ? Hinder not his fated going ; thus is it willed there where is power to do that which is willed ; and ask thou no more.
Page 186 - And that thou mayst the more willingly scrape the glassy tears from my face, know that soon as the soul betrays, as I did, its body is taken from it by a demon, who thereafter governs it until its time be all revolved.
Page 12 - Master what is so grievous to them that makes them lament thus bitterly?" He answered: "I will tell it to thee very briefly. These have no hope of death; and their blind life is so mean, that they are envious of every other lot. Report of them the world permits not to exist Mercy and Justice disdain them; let us not speak of them; but look, and pass.
Page 156 - I truly saw, and still I seem to see it, A trunk without a head walk in like manner As walked the others of the mournful herd. And by the hair it held the head dissevered, Hung from the hand in fashion of a lantern, And that upon us gazed and said: "O me!
Page 7 - ... the papal mantle. Afterward the Chosen Vessel went thither to bring thence comfort to that faith which is the beginning of the way of salvation. But I, why go I thither ? or who concedes it ? I am not Aeneas, I am not Paul ; me worthy of this, neither I nor others think ; wherefore if I give myself up to go, I fear lest the going may be mad. Thou art wise, thou understandest better than I speak.
Page 184 - My father, why dost thou not help me?' And there he died; and, as thou seest me, I saw the three fall, one by one, between The fifth day and the sixth; whence I betook me, Already blind, to groping over each, And three days called them after they were dead; Then hunger did what sorrow could not do.