The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1891
The poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward",[4] and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

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47 ページ - 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?" I, being desirous to obey, concealed it not; but opened the whole to him: whereupon he raised his brows a little; then he said: "Fiercely adverse were they to me, and to my progenitors, and to my party; so that twice I scattered them.
22 ページ - Why criest thou too ? Do not impede his journey fate-ordained ; It is so willed there where is power to do That which is willed ; and ask no further question.
126 ページ - Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
186 ページ - Átropos sends it forth; and that you may more willingly scrape the glazen tears from my face, know that as soon as the soul betrays as I did, its body is taken from it by a devil who thereafter rules it until its time has all revolved.
12 ページ - 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.
16 ページ - Virgil and Dante depart. A heavy thunder broke the deep sleep in my head, so that I started up like a person who is waked by force, and, risen erect, I moved my rested eye round about, and looked fixedly to distinguish the place where I was. True it is, that I found myself on the brink of the woeful valley of the abyss which collects a thunder of infinite wailings. It was so dark, deep, and cloudy that, though I fixed my sight on the depth, I did not discern anything there. 'Now let us descend here...
107 ページ - 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...
42 ページ - Tow'rds the high tower with the red-flaming summit, Where in a moment saw I swift uprisen The three infernal Furies stained with blood, Who had the limbs of women and their mien, And with the greenest hydras were begirt; Small serpents and cerastes were their tresses, Wherewith their horrid temples were entwined.
184 ページ - 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.

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