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Page 116 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Page lxxxvii - Rossetti. - A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World and his Pilgrimage.
Page 91 - And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
Page xxix - Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Page 177 - Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto. Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso; Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante. Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse: Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante.
Page 519 - Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Page 43 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 337 - Poiché fu piacere de' cittadini della bellissima e famosissima figlia di Roma, Fiorenza, di gettarmi fuori del suo dolcissimo seno (nel quale nato e nudrito fui fino al colmo della mia vita, e nel quale, con buona pace di...
Page 453 - Ale hanno late, e colli e visi umani, Pie' con artigli, e pennuto '1 gran ventre. Fanno lamenti in su gli alberi strani. E '1 buon maestro: — Prima che più entre, Sappi che se' nel secondo girone, (Mi cominciò a dire): e sarai, mentre Che tu verrai nell'orribil sabbione.
Page 20 - BUT THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE, AND INTO MANY FOOLISH AND HURTFUL LUSTS, WHICH DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND PERDITION. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL : WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH, AND PIERCED THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS.
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| Title | Readings on the Inferno of Dante: Based Upon the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola and Other Authorities, Volume 1 Readings on the Inferno of Dante: Based Upon the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola and Other Authorities, Edward Moore |
| Author | William Warren Vernon |
| Translated by | William Warren Vernon |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2007 |
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