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" Forthwith I understood for certain this the tribe Of those ill spirits both to God displeasing And to his foes. These wretches, who ne'er lived, Went on in nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that,... "
Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet: With an Analysis of the Divina ... - Page 158
by Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 413 pages
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 pages
...I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him who, to base fear Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood for certain, this the tribe...tears, dropped to their feet, And by disgustful worms were gathered there. Then looking farther onward I beheld A throng upon the shore of a great stream...
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The Canadian Magazine, Volume 13

J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1899 - 630 pages
...not of them, but look and pass them by." (Non raggionam di loro, ma guarda e passa.) Dante adds : " Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe...spirits both to God displeasing And to His foes." One figure was singled' out for special notice, " the shade of him, who to base fear yielding abjured...
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The Vision of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1900 - 312 pages
...recognised, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear l Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe...nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew' d their cheeks With blood, that, mix'd with tears, dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful...
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The World's Great Classics, Volume 51

Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 474 pages
...speaks of the Y1elding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith 1 understood, for certain, this the tribe Oi those ill spirits both to God displeasing And to his...nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that, mix'd with tears, dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms...
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Sons of Francis

Anne Macdonell - 1902 - 476 pages
...the man wanted down here, they seem to say—not in Rome, at any rate. Dante meets him in hell, among those " ill spirits both to God displeasing And to his foes, these wretches who never lived." Yet Dante's hard judgment is more favourable to Celestine's manhood than that of his...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 446 pages
...Jlarcullini, of the Celestine rice or want of spirit, to support Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe...nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that, mix'd with tears, dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 20

1909 - 454 pages
...fellow-citimentions a work written by Inno- zens, who, refusing, through avaYielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe...nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that, mix'd with tears, dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise

Dante Alighieri - 1909 - 450 pages
...I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear* Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe...nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that, mix'd with tears, dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 3

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him who, to base fear Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood for certain, this the tribe...tears, dropped to their feet, And by disgustful worms were gathered there. Then looking farther onw.ard I beheld A throng upon the shore of a great stream:...
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The Vision of Dante Alighieri, Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise

Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 488 pages
...recognised, I saw * And knew the shade of him, who to base fear Yielding, abjured his high estate.1 Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe...nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that, mix'd with tears, dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms...
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