 Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before...  The Harvard Classics - Page 131909Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 680 pages
...Hell, because of the words ^l primo Amore appearing there— Through me you pass into the city of woe To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primieval love. One need hardly dwell on the forcefulness of Dante's speech—as Carlyle puts it, "... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 578 pages
...TO THE INFERNO. " Through me you pass into the city of woe : Through me you pass into eternal pain ; Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd ; To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest Wisdom and primeval Love. Before me things... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 586 pages
...founder of my fabric moved : To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom and primeval Love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. Ail hope abandon, ye who enter here." Such characters, in color dim, I marked Ove. a portal's lofty... | |
 | Franklin Harvey Head - 1899 - 126 pages
...infinite mercy, and in evidence of His love for man. Over the portals of Hell he inscribes the words, "Justice the founder of my fabric moved. To rear me...task of power divine, Supremest wisdom and primeval love." He was a magnificent hater. He rejoices in the endless torments of his enemies. He asks Virgil,... | |
 | 1899 - 394 pages
...strange to the superficial reader that the earlier lines of the same inscription read thus? : — " Justice the founder of my fabric moved : To rear me...task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love." As the reader ponders more deeply the symbolic pictures which the mighty artist places before... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 pages
...OF THE INFERNO. " Through me ye pass into the city of woe : Through me ye pass into eternal pain : Justice the founder of my fabric moved : To rear me...task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom and primeval Love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon,... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1899 - 630 pages
...people lost for aye, -The first of three papers by Professor William Clark, of Trinity College, Toronto. Justice, the founder of my fabric moved, To rear me was the work of power divine, Supremesl wisdom and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1900 - 312 pages
...•"//". : .". " THROUGH me you pass 1nto the c1ty of woe : Through me you pass into eternal pain : Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice...save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon,2 ye who enter here." Such characters, in colour dim, I mark'd Over a portal's lofty arch inscribed.... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1900 - 570 pages
...appearance' sake. Through me you pass into the city of woe : Through me you pass into eternal pain : Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice...fabric moved : To rear me was the task of power divine, Suprcmest wisdom, and primeval love ; Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal... | |
 | Frank Justus Miller, Oscar Kuhns - 1901 - 362 pages
...city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for ayeJustice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the...task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon,... | |
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