...that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman poet. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discovered there. How first I entered...

...trattar del ben ch'hio vi trovai, diro dell'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte. (Inferno I, 1-9) In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there. (Hell I, 1-9,...

...lap with a terrifyingly illustrated book more than half her size and sounded out, " 'In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray. . . .' " He'd started her on Latin when she was five, teaching himself at the same time — it would...

...turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman seorn'd. — William Congreve 'i'ht> Mourning Bride In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray, Gone from the path direct. —Dante Aligbieri Iitforno hey say everything happens for a reason. I suppose it can be argued that...

...aspra e forte che nel pensier rinova la paura! Tant'e amara che poca e piu morte. . . . ["In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death...."] How long Beatrice's godlike lover had wandered in the "dark wood" he does not tell us. When Lord Byron...

...mortal selfness. But when one clings to that idea of an immortal soul he follows Dante, In the midst of this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, gone from the path direct, and e'en to know the way it were no easy task. Even Jesus, himself, dallied with that temptation in its most insiduous...

...the solitary shore, And sing in louder strains the heav'nly freight. (Boyd 18d2a: 93) In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Clone from the path direct: and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how...

...passages that follow are given in the version of HF Cary (1772-1844). HELL From CANTO i In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd...

...passages that follow are given in the version of HF Cary (1772-1844). HELL From CANTO i In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,...my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate disco ver'd there. How first I enter...

...personages, with whom he converses. All the world knows the opening lines of the Inferno : "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood...dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death." He encounters three wild beasts, a leopard, a lion, and a wolf, which represent the three evils, the...