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adown alchemy answered arms art thou beast began beheld beneath Betwixt bore brow caitiff CANTO cast Centaur Cerberus Charon Cocytus countenance cried descend descried DIVINE COMEDY dost thou doth dread earth Ephialtes eternal evermore face fear feet fell fiend fire flame foul Geryon ghosts hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hell hence land limbs look master mind Minos moat Nessus never nigh nought o'er pain pass Phlegethon Phlegyas Plutus poet replied rest rock round sands seemed shade shouted side sight sinner sore soul speak sped spirit spoke stand stay stood strain Styx TAYLOR INSTITUTION teeth tell Thebes thee thence Thereat thou art thou hast Thou mayst thou shalt thou wilt thought thyself tongue torment turned Tuscan twain UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD unto wail waters weeping wend whence wight words wound yonder
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Page 145 - I rose, and hasted up with all my skill, At which the fiends advancing in a row, I feared they would the treaty not fulfil. I've seen the troops out of Caprona go On terms, affrighted thus, when on the spot 95 They found themselves with foemen compast so. Then close and closer to my guide I got
Page 15 - THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe; Through me you pass eternal woes to prove ; Through me among the blasted race you go.
Page 15 - Justice did my most high Author move, And I have been the work of power divine, 5 Of supreme wisdom, and of primal love. No creature has an elder date than mine, Unless eternal, and I have no end; O you that enter me, all hope resign." These words I saw in darksome colour penned
Page 208 - On each arm freighted with his children twain, He cried, " Spread out the nets, that I may take The lioness and whelps in passage there ; And then began his pitiless claws to shake, And took one, who the name Learchus bare, . 10 And whirled him round, and dashed him on a stone, Then drowned she with herself her other care. And when vicissitude had overthrown
Page 47 - And she it is who should on cross be hung, As many tell, who blame her much amiss, Where they should praise, with foul and wicked tongue. But she is happy, hearing nought of this, Among the glad first-born of God attending,
Page 34 - As soon as toward us on the blast they move, I lift my voice, " O spirits harassed, 80 Come and speak with us here, if none reprove." As doves that by affection called, with spread And moveless wings to their sweet nest repair, Through the air gliding, by volition sped; Thus from the troop, which Dido holds, they fare,
Page 224 - to tell thereof with fearfulness. For this is not a sportive enterprise, To speak the universe's lowest hold, Nor suits a tongue, that Paa and Mammy cries. The rather may those Queens my strains uphold, 10 Who helped Amphion rounding Thebes with wall; That fact may be akin to what is told.
Page 46 - the besotted creatures," answered he, 70 " What ignorance is this which you offends ? Now chew the verdict, which I tender thee. He, whose high wisdom all beside transcends, Has made the spheres, appointing one that might Rule over them, whence every part extends 75 To each, in tenor uniform, its light;
Page 34 - Had we the Monarch of the universe Our friend, his peace for thee should be our quest, As thou hast pity on our pain perverse. Whatever thou to speak and hear may list, We will give ear to, and will speak to thee, 95 So long as yet the blast remaineth whist. The land where I was born is by the sea,
Page 47 - Who might from time to time, from seed to seed, And place to place, their empty riches shake, so Beyond forestalling by your wit and heed. She doth one people raise, and one doth make To languish, by the allotment of her hand, Which is concealed, as by the sward the snake. Your wisdom can against her make no stand,