Dante's Hell: A Literal Metrical Translation, with Notes. Cantos I to XTicknor & Fields, 1857 |
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Æneas Anaxagoras art thou ascend Beatrice beheld bitter blest breast CANTO cause Cerberus Charon Ciacco circle cried Dante Dante's dark death deep descend desire discern dismal wood Divine Divine Comedy doth enter eternal evil eyes Farinata fear Feltro fierce Filippo Argenti fire flee foot forever Francesca full of sleep Ghiberline hath heart Heaven Hell high-its shoulders Homer honor hope Jehosaphat journey lamentation light lion lofty looked on high-its Mantua Master mayst mighty mortal nigh Nisus and Euryalus o'er onward pain panther panting breath Paolo Paradise regain pass Phlegyas Pirithous pity Plutus poet reached replied sage shade she-wolf shore sighs souls speak speech Styx sweet tell TERZA RIMA terzines thee things Thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt tombs torments translation treach truth turned twas unto Virgil wailings weep whate'er Whereat Widener Library wisdom words
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Pagina lxxvii - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land...
Pagina xxxvi - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Pagina xxvi - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Pagina xi - Therefore I think and judge it for thy best Thou follow me, and I will be thy guide, And lead thee hence through the eternal place, Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations...
Pagina xvii - And being but one, she can do all things; and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new; and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God and prophets. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with Wisdom. For she is more beautiful than the sun and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
Pagina xxv - And I, who looked again, beheld a banner, Which, whirling round, ran on so rapidly, That of all pause it seemed to me indignant; And after it there came so long a train Of people, that I ne'er would have believed That ever Death so many had undone.
Pagina xxxiv - I turn to the difficulty of conceiving how it was free and indifferent for God to make it not true that the three angles of a triangle were equal to two right angles, or in general that contradictories could not be true together.
Pagina v - Midway upon the journey of our life I found that I was in a dusky wood; For the right path, whence I had strayed, was lost, Ah me! How hard a thing it is to tell The wildness of that rough and savage place, The very thought of which brings back my fear! So bitter was it, death is little more so.
Pagina xlix - But tell me who thou art, that in so doleful A place art put, and in such punishment, If some are greater, none is so displeasing.