 Befriending, prosper your ascent," resumed The courteous keeper of the gate : " Come then Before our steps." We straightway thither came. The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polish'd, that therein my mirror'd form Distinct I saw. The next...  The Harvard Classics - Page 1831909Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 324 pages
...color each. . . . The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polished, that therein my mirrored form Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block, Cracked lengthwise and across. The third that lay Massy above, seemed porphyry, that flamed Bed as... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 234 pages
...the hewn block. The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polished that therein my mirrored form Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block, Cracked lengthwise and across. The third, that lay Massy above, seemed porphyry, that flowed Red as... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 326 pages
...grain, a rough and singed block. Cracked lengthwise and across. The third that lay Massy above, seemed porphyry, that flamed Red as the life-blood spouting from a vein. On this God's angel either foot sustained, Upon the threshold seated, which appeared A rock of diamond. . . . From underneath that... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 168 pages
...(Purgatory, Canto IX, Norton's translation.) "The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polished, that therein my mirror'd form Distinct I saw. The...dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block Cracked lengthwise and across. The third, that lay Massy above, seemed porphyry, that flamed Red as... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 458 pages
...keeper of the gate : " Come then Before our steps." We straightway thither came. The lowest stair" was marble white, so smooth And polish'd, that therein...form Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark Than säblest grain, a rough and singed block, Crack'd lengthwise and across. The third, that lay Massy... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 488 pages
...courteous keeper of the gate : " Come then Before our steps." We straightway thither came. The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polish'd, that therein...spouting from a vein. On this God's Angel either foot sustain 'd, Upon the threshold seated, which appear'd A rock of diamond.1 Up the trinal steps My leader... | |
 | John Theodore Slattery - 1920 - 320 pages
...expressed by Dante in his description of the Gate of St. Peter and its angelic keeper : "The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polish'd that therein...dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block, Cracked lengthwise and across. The third, that lay Massy above, seemed prophyry, that flam'd Red as... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1920 - 186 pages
...(Purgatory, Canto IX, Norton's translation.) "The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polished, that therein my mirror'd form Distinct I saw. The...dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block Cracked lengthwise and across. The third, that lay Massy above, seemed porphyry, that flamed Red as... | |
 | Mary Bradford Whiting - 1922 - 242 pages
...that the first step to repentance is that the sinner should see himself as he is; the second step is of hue more dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block, Cracked lengthwise and across ; the type of that contrition which burns and breaks the sinner's heart;... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1923 - 488 pages
...thither came. The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polish 'd, that therein my mirror 'd form Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block, Crack 'd lengthwise and across. The third, that lay Massy above, seem'd porphyry, that flamed Red as... | |
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