...147, — 3o. for rest, read rest, 177, — 22, for vltissimas, read altissinias VOL. I. HELL. CANTO I. IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how rohust and rongh its growth, 5 Which to rememher ouly, my dismay Tifnews, in hitterness not far from...

...opening paragraph is thus translated out of the original rhyme into blank verse, by Carey ; — 715 718 " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from tbe path direct ; and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and...

...-fifth year of the poet's age, AD 1300, and to have occupied three days. The poein opens as follows. ' In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray 1819.] Dante. Gone from the path direct and e'en to tell It were ho easy task, how savage wild That...

...surpassed by Scripture, but they are evidently of a different kind. The first book thus opens, — " In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what...

...Purgatory; and that be shall then l> oondueted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. Isr the midway* of this our mortal life, I found me in...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what...

...the midway* of this our mortal life< 1 found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direet : and e'en to tell< It were no easy task, how savage...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Whieh to remember only, my dismay Renews in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to diseourse of what...

...pensier rinuuova la paura. Tanto e amara, die poco e piu morte. " In the midway of this our mortal life 1 found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy tash, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough it's growth, Which to remember only, my dismay...

...Purgatory; and that he shall then be eondueted by Beatriee into Paradise. Ht follows the Roman poet, Is the midway* of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direet : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough...

...PARADISE 1 to 178 NOTES 179to271 INDEX THE VISION OF DANTE. HELL. HEL -L. CANTO I. argument. The writer, having lost his way in a gloomy forest, and being...wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what...

...that he shall then be condueted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direet : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough...