The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 760 pages |
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... feet Enter , and cross himself , and on the floor Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er ; Far off the noises of the world retreat ; The loud vociferations of the street Become an undistinguishable roar . So , as I enter here from day to ...
... feet Enter , and cross himself , and on the floor Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er ; Far off the noises of the world retreat ; The loud vociferations of the street Become an undistinguishable roar . So , as I enter here from day to ...
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... feet By the disgusting worms was gathered up . And when to gazing farther I betook me , People I saw on a great river's bank ; Whence said I : " Master , now vouchsafe to me , That I may know who these are , and what law Makes them ...
... feet By the disgusting worms was gathered up . And when to gazing farther I betook me , People I saw on a great river's bank ; Whence said I : " Master , now vouchsafe to me , That I may know who these are , and what law Makes them ...
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... feet Upon their vanity that person seems . They all were lying prone upon the earth , Excepting one , who sat upright as soon As he beheld us passing on before him . " O thou that art conducted through this Hell , " He said to me ...
... feet Upon their vanity that person seems . They all were lying prone upon the earth , Excepting one , who sat upright as soon As he beheld us passing on before him . " O thou that art conducted through this Hell , " He said to me ...
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... look . They smote each other not alone with hands , But with the head and with the breast and feet , Tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth . 95 800 105 110 Said the good Master : " Son , thou now Inferno vII . 43.
... look . They smote each other not alone with hands , But with the head and with the breast and feet , Tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth . 95 800 105 110 Said the good Master : " Son , thou now Inferno vII . 43.
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... feet directed tow'rds the city , After those holy words all confident . Within we entered without any contest ; And I , who inclination had to see What the condition such a fortress holds , Soon as I was within , cast round mine eye ...
... feet directed tow'rds the city , After those holy words all confident . Within we entered without any contest ; And I , who inclination had to see What the condition such a fortress holds , Soon as I was within , cast round mine eye ...
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Page 290 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me ; Come hither, I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Page 338 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 301 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 309 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 224 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 338 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 235 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 338 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 275 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Page 231 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...