 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 474 pages
...terrestrial paradise, Pietro • " A mountain dim." The mountain Lombardo relates that " it was separated Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight; But...: so fate decreed : And over us the booming billow closed." 7 CANTO XXVII ARGUMENT. — The Poet, treating of the same punishment as in the last Canto,... | |
 | Frank Justus Miller, Oscar Kuhns - 1901 - 362 pages
...underneath the moon. Since the deep way we entered, when from far Appear'da mountain dim, loftiest methought Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight; But...prow: so fate decreed: And over us the booming billow closed." In the center of the amphitheater of Malebolge is a deep and vast well, guarded by giants,... | |
 | 1909 - 454 pages
..."it was separated by a long space, Among various opinions respecting either of sea or land, from the Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight; But...prow: so fate decreed: And over us the booming billow closed."1 CANTO XXVII ARGUMENT. — The Poet, treating of the same punishment as in the last Canto,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 494 pages
...the moon, Since the deep way we enter'd, when from far Appear'da mountain dim,2 loftiest methought Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight; But...: so fate decreed : And over us the booming billow closed." 1 The " columns of Hercules," Gibraltar and Mount Abyla, were held to be the western limit... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 488 pages
...the moon, Since the deep way we enter'd, when from far Appear'da mountain dim,2 loftiest methought Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight; But...round With all the waves ; the fourth time lifted up TheSpoop, and sank the prow : so fate decreed : And over us the booming billow closed. ' ' 1 The "... | |
 | Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...the moon, Since the deep way we entered, when from far Appeared a mountain dim, loftiest methought Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight ; But...her foremost side Did strike the vessel. Thrice it whirled her round With all the waves ; the fourth time lifted up The poop, and sank the prow ; so fate... | |
 | Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...the new land A whirlwind sprung, and at her foremost side Did strike the vessel. Thrice it whirled her round With all the waves ; the fourth time lifted...; so fate decreed : And over us the booming billow closed. But such " purple passages " are not, in one sense at least, the most difficult to translate.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1998 - 226 pages
...the moon, Since the deep way we entered, when from far Appeared a mountain dim, loftiest methought Of all I e'er beheld. Joy seized us straight; But soon to mourning changed. From the new land 130 A whirlwind sprung, and at her foremost side Did strike the vessel. Thrice it whirled her round... | |
 | Jennifer Speake - 2003 - 516 pages
...unpeopled world," Ulysses breaches the natural and divine boundaries and therefore must be punished: "Joy seized us straight; But soon to mourning changed....prow: so fate decreed: And over us the booming billow closed" (lines 129135). Overstepping the frontier is a "witless flight," a concept that is reiterated... | |
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Joy seized us straight; But soon to mourning changed. From the new land A whirlwind sprung, and at her foremost side Did strike the vessel. Thrice it whirl'd her round With all the waves; the fourth time lifted up The poop, and sank the prow: so fate... 
