ISBN: 9781154177336

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... it was that moved my Maker high, The Power of God it was that fashioned me, Wisdom supreme, and primal Charity. Before me nothing was of things that be, Save the eterne, and I eterne endure: Ye that pass in, all hope abandon ye. Wheeler, 1911 I am the gateway into sorrow''s land; I am the gateway to unending pain; I am the gateway to the nations banned. Of Justice was my mighty Maker fain; In me doth power omnipotent appear, And primal love and wisdom without stain. Before me nought but things eternal were, And I endure to all eternity. Leave hope behind, O! ye who enter here. Dante''s citta is rendered land. Dante says alto, not first. Dante''s primo is rendered uncreate. According to the Schoolmen, the Angels and the Heavens emanated directly from God, and were in existence before Hell. Cp. Pandite atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci obsecro Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco, quippe quo nemo advenit, Nisi quam spes reliquere omnes... --Plautus, Bacchides, Hi:1. These sentences, in color darkly dyed, 10 Above a gate I saw, that written were: And I: O Master, hard things do they betide. Then answered me my wise Interpreter: Thou must renounce here all suspicious dread; Perish the coward fears that would deter! 15 We are arrived where, as I have thee said, The miserable folk thou shalt descry From whom the good of intellect hath fled. Then with kind look he touched my hand, and I Thereby was comforted, and in such wise 20 He led me in that land of mystery. Here sighs, complaints, and loud bewailing cries Were sounding through the starless atmosphere So that at first the tears came to my eyes. Languages strange, words horrible and drear, 25 Outcries of fury,... Dante Alighieri, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Dante in English; A Terza Rima Translation and Critique of Terza Rima Translations of the Inferno of Dante (Cantos I-VII) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154177336

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... it was that moved my Maker high, The Power of God it was that fashioned me, Wisdom supreme, and primal Charity. Before me nothing was of things that be, Save the eterne, and I eterne endure: Ye that pass in, all hope abandon ye. Wheeler, 1911 I am the gateway into sorrow''s land; I am the gateway to unending pain; I am the gateway to the nations banned. Of Justice was my mighty Maker fain; In me doth power omnipotent appear, And primal love and wisdom without stain. Before me nought but things eternal were, And I endure to all eternity. Leave hope behind, O! ye who enter here. Dante''s citta is rendered land. Dante says alto, not first. Dante''s primo is rendered uncreate. According to the Schoolmen, the Angels and the Heavens emanated directly from God, and were in existence before Hell. Cp. Pandite atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci obsecro Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco, quippe quo nemo advenit, Nisi quam spes reliquere omnes... --Plautus, Bacchides, Hi:1. These sentences, in color darkly dyed, 10 Above a gate I saw, that written were: And I: O Master, hard things do they betide. Then answered me my wise Interpreter: Thou must renounce here all suspicious dread; Perish the coward fears that would deter! 15 We are arrived where, as I have thee said, The miserable folk thou shalt descry From whom the good of intellect hath fled. Then with kind look he touched my hand, and I Thereby was comforted, and in such wise 20 He led me in that land of mystery. Here sighs, complaints, and loud bewailing cries Were sounding through the starless atmosphere So that at first the tears came to my eyes. Languages strange, words horrible and drear, 25 Outcries of fury,... Dante Alighieri, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Dante in English; A Terza Rima Translation and Critique of Terza Rima Translations of the Inferno of Dante (Cantos I-VII) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <