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Divine Comedy: Purgatory33 passages

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xn [25- 27] 70c; PARADISE, vii [121-148] 116b-c; xix [40-51] 135c; xxix [1-48] 150b-d✓ correct

With equal pace as oxen in the yoke, I with that laden spirit journey’d on Long as the mild instructor suffer’d me; But when he bade me quit him, and proceed (For “here,” said he, “behooves with sail and oars Each man, as best he may, push on his bark”), Upright, as one dispos’d for speed, I rais’d My body, still in thought submissive bow’d. I now my leader’s track not loth pursued; And… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxv [34-78] 91d-92a✓ correct

It was an hour, when he who climbs, had need To walk uncrippled: for the sun had now To Taurus the meridian circle left, And to the Scorpion left the night. As one That makes no pause, but presses on his road, Whate’er betide him, if some urgent need Impel: so enter’d we upon our way, One before other; for, but singly, none That steep and narrow scale admits to climb. E’en as the young… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xi [79- 120] 69c-70a; xxvi [91-126] 93d-94b✓ correct

The heavens thy dwelling, not in bounds confin’d, But that with love intenser there thou view’st Thy primal effluence, hallow’d be thy name: Join each created being to extol Thy might, for worthy humblest thanks and praise Is thy blest Spirit. May thy kingdom’s peace Come unto us; for we, unless it come, With all our striving thither tend in vain. As of their will the angels unto… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, ii [106- 133] 55c-d✓ correct

Now had the sun to that horizon reach’d, That covers, with the most exalted point Of its meridian circle, Salem’s walls, And night, that opposite to him her orb Sounds, from the stream of Ganges issued forth, Holding the scales, that from her hands are dropp’d When she reigns highest: so that where I was, Aurora’s white and vermeil-tinctur’d cheek To orange turn’d as she in age… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxn [55-93] 87a-c; PARADISE, i [1-36] 106a-b; n [1-18] 107d; xvii [100-142] 133a-c✓ correct

Now we had left the angel, who had turn’d To the sixth circle our ascending step, One gash from off my forehead raz’d: while they, Whose wishes tend to justice, shouted forth: “Blessed!” and ended with, “I thirst:” and I, More nimble than along the other straits, So journey’d, that, without the sense of toil, I follow’d upward the swift-footed shades; When Virgil thus began: “Let its pure… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, in [28- 30] 56a; PARADISE, n [19-45] 108a; [112-148] 109a-b; xxvin [1-78] 148d-149c✓ correct

Them sudden flight had scatter’d over the plain, Turn’d tow’rds the mountain, whither reason’s voice Drives us; I to my faithful company Adhering, left it not. For how of him Depriv’d, might I have sped, or who beside Would o’er the mountainous tract have led my steps He with the bitter pang of self-remorse Seem’d smitten. O clear conscience and upright How doth a little fling wound thee… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, iv [55- 84] 58a-b; PARADISE, i [1-48] 120b*d✓ correct

When by sensations of delight or pain, That any of our faculties hath seiz’d, Entire the soul collects herself, it seems She is intent upon that power alone, And thus the error is disprov’d which holds The soul not singly lighted in the breast. And therefore when as aught is heard or seen, That firmly keeps the soul toward it turn’d, Time passes, and a man perceives it not. For that,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxvn 94c-96a; xxx-xxxi 99b-102b; PARADISE, xiv [67-139] 127c-128b; xxx [1-33] 151d-152a✓ correct

Now was the sun so station’d, as when first His early radiance quivers on the heights, Where stream’d his Maker’s blood, while Libra hangs Above Hesperian Ebro, and new fires Meridian flash on Ganges’ yellow tide. So day was sinking, when the’ angel of God Appear’d before us. Joy was in his mien. Forth of the flame he stood upon the brink, And with a voice, whose lively clearness… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xvni [19-39] 80a-b; PARADISE, i [94-142] 107b-d; n [112-148] 109a-b✓ correct

The light bark of my genius lifts the sail, Well pleas’d to leave so cruel sea behind; And of that second region will I sing, In which the human spirit from sinful blot Is purg’d, and for ascent to Heaven prepares. Here, O ye hallow’d Nine! for in your train I follow, here the deadened strain revive; Nor let Calliope refuse to sound A somewhat higher song, of that loud tone, Which when… Read the rest of this passage →

Dwtne Comedy, PURGATORY, xvi [52- 84] 77b-d 138-154 106b-108b / Nun's Prittfs Talc [15,238-256] 456b-457a✓ correct

Did never spread before the sight a veil In thickness like that fog, nor to the sense So palpable and gross. Ent’ring its shade, Mine eye endured not with unclosed lids; Which marking, near me drew the faithful guide, Offering me his shoulder for a stay. As the blind man behind his leader walks, Lest he should err, or stumble unawares On what might harm him, or perhaps destroy, I… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xvm [10-33] 80a SECT 23 153c-d; CH XVH, SECT 4 168b-d✓ correct

The teacher ended, and his high discourse Concluding, earnest in my looks inquir’d If I appear’d content; and I, whom still Unsated thirst to hear him urg’d, was mute, Mute outwardly, yet inwardly I said: “Perchance my too much questioning offends But he, true father, mark’d the secret wish By diffidence restrain’d, and speaking, gave Me boldness thus to speak: “Master, my Sight Gathers… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xni [79-96] 72d; xvi [85-114] 77d-78a; xix [127- 141] 82d 83a :✓ correct

Upon the second buttress of that mount Which healeth him who climbs. A cornice there, Like to the former, girdles round the hill; Save that its arch with sweep less ample bends. Shadow nor image there is seen; all smooth The rampart and the path, reflecting nought But the rock’s sullen hue. “If here we wait For some to question,” said the bard, “I fear Our choice may haply meet too long… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xiv [91- 126] 74c-75a; xxvm [76-126] 96d-97c; PARA- DISE, xv-xvi 128b-132a✓ correct

Say who is he around our mountain winds, Or ever death has prun’d his wing for flight, That opes his eyes and covers them at will?” “I know not who he is, but know thus much He comes not singly. Do thou ask of him, For thou art nearer to him, and take heed Accost him gently, so that he may speak.” Thus on the right two Spirits bending each Toward the other, talk’d of me, then… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xvn [9i]-xvm [75] 79b-80c; xx [i24]-xxi [75] 84c-85d passim; PARADISE, i [103-120] 107b-c✓ correct

Call to remembrance, reader, if thou e’er Hast, on a mountain top, been ta’en by cloud, Through which thou saw’st no better, than the mole Doth through opacous membrane; then, whene’er The wat’ry vapours dense began to melt Into thin air, how faintly the sun’s sphere Seem’d wading through them; so thy nimble thought May image, how at first I re-beheld The sun, that bedward now his couch… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xv [40- 81] 75d-76a; xvii feij-xvin [75] 79b-80c✓ correct

As restless as an infant in his play, So much appear’d remaining to the sun Of his slope journey towards the western goal. Evening was there, and here the noon of night; and full upon our forehead smote the beams. For round the mountain, circling, so our path Had led us, that toward the sun-set now Direct we journey’d: when I felt a weight Of more exceeding splendour, than before, Press… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, vi [76- 151] 61c-62c✓ correct

When from their game of dice men separate, He, who hath lost, remains in sadness fix’d, Revolving in his mind, what luckless throws He cast: but meanwhile all the company Go with the other; one before him runs, And one behind his mantle twitches, one Fast by his side bids him remember him. He stops not; and each one, to whom his hand Is stretch’d, well knows he bids him stand aside; And… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxx [100-145] lOOb-d✓ correct

Soon as the polar light, which never knows Setting nor rising, nor the shadowy veil Of other cloud than sin, fair ornament Of the first heav’n, to duty each one there Safely convoying, as that lower doth The steersman to his port, stood firmly fix’d; Forthwith the saintly tribe, who in the van Between the Gryphon and its radiance came, Did turn them to the car, as to their rest: And one,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy PURGATORY, xxvm ',✓ correct

Through that celestial forest, whose thick shade With lively greenness the new-springing day Attemper’d, eager now to roam, and search Its limits round, forthwith I left the bank, Along the champain leisurely my way Pursuing, o’er the ground, that on all sides Delicious odour breath’d. A pleasant air, That intermitted never, never veer’d, Smote on my temples, gently, as a wind Of softest… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxix [106-120] 98d-99a; xxxi [76-126] 101c-102a; xxxu [19-63] 102c-103a; PARADISE, n [31-45] 108a; vi [10-21] 113d; VH [16-120] 115b-116b; xiii [37-87]125d-126b; xxxn [i39]-xxxm [145] 156a-157d✓ correct

Singly across the sylvan shadows, one Eager to view and one to ’scape the sun, So mov’d she on, against the current, up The verdant rivage. I, her mincing step Observing, with as tardy step pursued. Between us not an hundred paces trod, The bank, on each side bending equally, Gave me to face the orient. Nor our way Far onward brought us, when to me at once She turn’d, and cried: “My… Read the rest of this passage →

Dunne Comedy, HLLL, iv [46-63] 5d- 6a; PURGATORY, xxxii [28-63] 102c-103a; xxxin [52-72] 104d-105a; PARADISE, vn [16-120] 115b-116b; xm [37-87! 125d-126b, xix [103-111] 136a, xxin 141b-142c; xxxn [1-138] 154d-156a✓ correct

Mine eyes with such an eager coveting, Were bent to rid them of their ten years’ thirst, No other sense was waking: and e’en they Were fenc’d on either side from heed of aught; So tangled in its custom’d toils that smile Of saintly brightness drew me to itself, When forcibly toward the left my sight The sacred virgins turn’d; for from their lips I heard the warning sounds: “Too fix’d a… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xix [70- 145] 82b-83a✓ correct

It was the hour, when of diurnal heat No reliques chafe the cold beams of the moon, O’erpower’d by earth, or planetary sway Of Saturn; and the geomancer sees His Greater Fortune up the east ascend, Where gray dawn checkers first the shadowy cone; When ’fore me in my dream a woman’s shape There came, with lips that stammer’d, eyes aslant, Distorted feet, hands maim’d, and colour pale. I… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xvni [19-75] 80a-c; xxvn 94c-96a✓ correct

Now the fair consort of Tithonus old, Arisen from her mate’s beloved arms, Look’d palely o’er the eastern cliff: her brow, Lucent with jewels, glitter’d, set in sign Of that chill animal, who with his train Smites fearful nations: and where then we were, Two steps of her ascent the night had past, And now the third was closing up its wing, When I, who had so much of Adam with me, Sank… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, XVH [82]-xvin [75] 79b-80c; PARADISE, xxvi [1-81] 145d-146c✓ correct

While singly thus along the rim we walk’d, Oft the good master warn’d me: “Look thou well. Avail it that I caution thee.” The sun Now all the western clime irradiate chang’d From azure tinct to white; and, as I pass’d, My passing shadow made the umber’d flame Burn ruddier. At so strange a sight I mark’d That many a spirit marvel’d on his way. This bred occasion first to speak of me, “He… Read the rest of this passage →

Divme Comedy, HLLL, v 7a-8b; xi [76-90] 16a; PURGATORY, vin [67-84] 65a; xvn [127-139] 79d; xix [1-69] 81c-82a; xxv [io9]-xxvi [148] 92c-94c …✓ correct

Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart, Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day: When I, no longer taking heed to hear Began, with wonder, from those spirits to mark One risen from its seat, which with its… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, x [70- 93} 68a-b; xv [85-114] 76b-c✓ correct

When we had passed the threshold of the gate (Which the soul’s ill affection doth disuse, Making the crooked seem the straighter path), I heard its closing sound. Had mine eyes turn’d, For that offence what plea might have avail’d? We mounted up the riven rock, that wound On either side alternate, as the wave Flies and advances. “Here some little art Behooves us,” said my leader, “that… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, vn [121-123] 64a; PARADISE, vm [91-148] 117d- 118c✓ correct

After their courteous greetings joyfully Sev’n times exchang’d, Sordello backward drew Exclaiming, “Who are ye?” “Before this mount By spirits worthy of ascent to God Was sought, my bones had by Octavius’ care Been buried. I am Virgil, for no sin Depriv’d of heav’n, except for lack of faith.” So answer’d him in few my gentle guide. As one, who aught before him suddenly Beholding, whence… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxxi [91-111] 101d-102a; xxxm [79-102] 105a-b; 2<?(4) to Ib CHAPTER 56: MEMORY AND IMAGINATION 147✓ correct

They but with lateral edge seem’d harsh before, “Say thou, who stand’st beyond the holy stream, If this be true. A charge so grievous needs Thine own avowal.” On my faculty Such strange amazement hung, the voice expir’d Imperfect, ere its organs gave it birth. A little space refraining, then she spake: “What dost thou muse on? Answer me. The wave On thy remembrances of evil yet Hath done… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy PURGATORY, xx [124]- : t xxi [75] 84c-85d; PARADISE, iv [ii5]-v [12] b 17] 613b-c; [1370^4-1371*7] 614b-c; [i37i 33-1372*1] 615b-c 61a-d; BK vi [1-41] 80a-d✓ correct

His pleasure therefore to mine own preferr’d, I drew the sponge yet thirsty from the wave. Onward I mov’d: he also onward mov’d, Who led me, coasting still, wherever place Along the rock was vacant, as a man Walks near the battlements on narrow wall. For those on th’ other part, who drop by drop Wring out their all-infecting malady, Too closely press the verge. Accurst be… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxiv [49-63] 90a-b; PARADISE, xxx [16-36] 152a✓ correct

Our journey was not slacken’d by our talk, Nor yet our talk by journeying. Still we spake, And urg’d our travel stoutly, like a ship When the wind sits astern. The shadowy forms, That seem’d things dead and dead again, drew in At their deep-delved orbs rare wonder of me, Perceiving I had life; and I my words Continued, and thus spake; “He journeys up Perhaps more tardily then else he… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxxm [22-90] 104b-105a; PARADISE, ix 118c-120a✓ correct

The trinal now, and now the virgin band Quaternion, their sweet psalmody began, Weeping; and Beatrice listen’d, sad And sighing, to the song’, in such a mood, That Mary, as she stood beside the cross, Was scarce more chang’d. But when they gave her place To speak, then, risen upright on her feet, She, with a colour glowing bright as fire, Did answer: “Yet a little while, and ye Shall see… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xvn [9i]-xvm [75] 79b-80c 23 HOBBES: leviathan, PART i, 87c; 93c; PART in, 165bc

On the green leaf mine eyes were fix’d, like his Who throws away his days in idle chase Of the diminutive, when thus I heard The more than father warn me: “Son! our time Asks thriftier using. Linger not: away.” Thereat my face and steps at once I turn’d Toward the sages, by whose converse cheer’d I journey’d on, and felt no toil: and lo! A sound of weeping and a song: “My lips, O Lord!”… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, xxi [34- 78] 85b-d; PARADISE, i [97-142! 107b-d; m [43-90] 109d-110b; xx [130-141] 138a; xxi [64-75] 138d-139a; xxvi [25-36] 146a✓ correct

The natural thirst, ne’er quench’d but from the well, Whereof the woman of Samaria crav’d, Excited: haste along the cumber’d path, After my guide, impell’d; and pity mov’d My bosom for the ’vengeful deed, though just. When lo! even as Luke relates, that Christ Appear’d unto the two upon their way, New-risen from his vaulted grave; to us A shade appear’d, and after us… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, v [1-21] 59a; xvm [76-145] 80d-81b; PARADISE, iv [64-90] lllb-c✓ correct

I left those spirits, and pursued The steps of my Conductor, when beheld Pointing the finger at me one exclaim’d: “See how it seems as if the light not shone From the left hand of him beneath, and he, As living, seems to be led on.” Mine eyes I at that sound reverting, saw them gaze Through wonder first at me, and then at me And the light broken underneath, by turns. “Why are thy… Read the rest of this passage →

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Divine Comedy: Hell27 passages

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxxi 46a-47c; PARADISE, vin [1-15] 116d✓ correct

THE very tongue, whose keen reproof before Had wounded me, that either cheek was stain’d, Now minister’d my cure. So have I heard, Achilles and his father’s javelin caus’d Pain first, and then the boon of health restor’d. Turning our back upon the vale of woe, W cross’d th’ encircled mound in silence. There Was twilight dim, that far long the gloom Mine eye advanc’d not: but I heard a… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, vn [67-96] lOb-c; PARADISE, i [103-126] 107b-c; n [112- 138] 109a; vni [16-39] 116d-117a; [97- 4l ri 118a; xm [52-72] 126a; xxvin 148d-150b; xxix [37-45] 150c✓ correct

AH me! O Satan! Satan!” loud exclaim’d Plutus, in accent hoarse of wild alarm: And the kind sage, whom no event surpris’d, To comfort me thus spake: “Let not thy fear Harm thee, for power in him, be sure, is none To hinder down this rock thy safe descent.” Then to that sworn lip turning, “ Peace!” he cried, “Curs’d wolf! thy fury inward on thyself Prey, and consume thee! Through the dark… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, in [22-51] 4b-c; XXXIV [28-36] 51c; PURGATORY, XII [25-27] 70c; PARADISE, xix [40-51] 135c; xxix [49- 66] 150d-151a✓ correct

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 create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here.” Such characters in colour dim I… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL la-52d✓ correct

THUS we from bridge to bridge, with other talk, The which my drama cares not to rehearse, Pass’d on; and to the summit reaching, stood To view another gap, within the round Of Malebolge, other bootless pangs. Marvelous darkness shadow’d o’er the place. In the Venetians’ arsenal as boils Through wintry months tenacious pitch, to smear Their unsound vessels; for th’ inclement… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, vin [65]-ix [103] llc-13b; PURGAIORY, v [85-129] 59d- 60c; vin [1-108] 64a-65b; ix [70-145] 66c-67b; xn [73-136] 71a-d; xvn [40-63] 78d-79a; PARADISE, XXXII [85-114] 155c-d 22 CHAuchR: Second Nun's Tale [15,588-825] 463b-467b✓ correct

MY theme pursuing, I relate that ere We reach’d the lofty turret’s base, our eyes Its height ascended, where two cressets hung We mark’d, and from afar another light Return the signal, so remote, that scarce The eye could catch its beam. I turning round To the deep source of knowledge, thus inquir’d: “Say what this means? and what that other light In answer set? what agency doth… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxxiv 5lb-52d✓ correct

THE banners of Hell’s Monarch do come forth Towards us; therefore look,” so spake my guide, “If thou discern him.” As, when breathes a cloud Heavy and dense, or when the shades of night Fall on our hemisphere, seems view’d from far A windmill, which the blast stirs briskly round, Such was the fabric then methought I saw, To shield me from the wind, forthwith I drew Behind my guide: no… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, VIH [titf-ix [103] llc-13b; XXVH [55-136] 40a-41b; PURGA-✓ correct

IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover’d there. How first I enter’d it I… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxvi [112-120] 39b; PURGATORY, xxv [34-78] 91d-92a; PARA- DISE, v [19-24] 112b; vn [121-148] 116b-c✓ correct

FLORENCE exult! for thou so mightily Hast thriven, that o’er land and sea thy wings Thou beatest, and thy name spreads over hell! Among the plund’rers such the three I found Thy citizens, whence shame to me thy son, And no proud honour to thyself redounds. But if our minds, when dreaming near the dawn, Are of the truth presageful, thou ere long Shalt feel what Prato, (not to say the… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xvi [64-78] 23a-b✓ correct

NOW came I where the water’s din was heard, As down it fell into the other round, Resounding like the hum of swarming bees: When forth together issu’d from a troop, That pass’d beneath the fierce tormenting storm, Three spirits, running swift. They towards us came, And each one cried aloud, “Oh do thou stay! Whom by the fashion of thy garb we deem To be some inmate of our evil land.” Ah… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xi [91-111] 16a-b; PARADISE, i [94-142] 107b-d; n [112- 138] 109a; vin [91-111] 117d-118a; xm [52- 84] 126a-b✓ correct

UPON the utmost verge of a high bank, By craggy rocks environ’d round, we came, Where woes beneath more cruel yet were stow’d: And here to shun the horrible excess Of fetid exhalation, upward cast From the profound abyss, behind the lid Of a great monument we stood retir’d, Whereon this scroll I mark’d: “I have in charge Pope Anastasius, whom Photinus drew From the right path. — Ere our… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, v [73-142] 7d- 8b; PURGATORY, ii [76-133] 55b-d; xxiv [49- b 6}]90a-b b✓ correct

FROM the first circle I descended thus Down to the second, which, a lesser space Embracing, so much more of grief contains Provoking bitter moans. There, Minos stands Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all Who enter, strict examining the crimes, Gives sentence, and dismisses them beneath, According as he foldeth him around: For when before him comes th’ ill fated soul, It all… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, vi [58-75] 9a; a b xi [1-66] 15a-d; xv [55-78] 21d; xvi [64-78] 23a-b; xxxn [yol-xxxin [90] 48c-50c passim …✓ correct

MY sense reviving, that erewhile had droop’d With pity for the kindred shades, whence grief O’ercame me wholly, straight around I see New torments, new tormented souls, which way Soe’er I move, or turn, or bend my sight. In the third circle I arrive, of show’rs Ceaseless, accursed, heavy, and cold, unchang’d For ever, both in kind and in degree. Large hail, discolour’d water, sleety… Read the rest of this passage →

Dmne Comedy, HELL la-52d passim, 21a~22c, xxiv [1-78] 34d-35b; PURGATORY 53a-105d passim✓ correct

IN the year’s early nonage, when the sun Tempers his tresses in Aquarius’ urn, And now towards equal day the nights recede, When as the rime upon the earth puts on Her dazzling sister’s image, but not long Her milder sway endures, then riseth up The village hind, whom fails his wintry store, And looking out beholds the plain around All whiten’d, whence impatiently he smites His thighs,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxx [37-45] 44d-45a; PURGATORY, xxv [109-139] 92c-d✓ correct

WHAT time resentment burn’d in Juno’s breast For Semele against the Theban blood, As more than once in dire mischance was rued, Such fatal frenzy seiz’d on Athamas, That he his spouse beholding with a babe Laden on either arm, “Spread out,” he cried, “The meshes, that I take the lioness And the young lions at the pass: “then forth Stretch’d he his merciless talons, grasping one, One… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxxn [124]- xxxm [90] 49a-50c; PARADISE, xv-xvn 128b- 133c passim✓ correct

I command rough rhimes and hoarse, to suit That hole of sorrow, o’er which ev’ry rock His firm abutment rears, then might the vein Of fancy rise full springing: but not mine Such measures, and with falt’ring awe I touch The mighty theme; for to describe the depth Of all the universe, is no emprize To jest with, and demands a tongue not us’d To infant babbling. But let them assist My… Read the rest of this passage →

Dwine Comedy, HELL, xiv [43-72] 20a-b; PARADISE, iv [49-63] lllb; vm [1-12] 116d✓ correct

SOON as the charity of native land Wrought in my bosom, I the scatter’d leaves Collected, and to him restor’d, who now Was hoarse with utt’rance. To the limit thence We came, which from the third the second round Divides, and where of justice is display’d Contrivance horrible. Things then first seen Clearlier to manifest, I tell how next A plain we reach’d, that from its sterile bed Each… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, n [43-126] 3a-4a✓ correct

NOW was the day departing, and the air, Imbrown’d with shadows, from their toils releas’d All animals on earth; and I alone Prepar’d myself the conflict to sustain, Both of sad pity, and that perilous road, Which my unerring memory shall retrace. O Muses! O high genius! now vouchsafe Your aid! O mind! that all I saw hast kept Safe in a written record, here thy worth And eminent… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxvn [67-132] 40c-41a✓ correct

NOW upward rose the flame, and still’d its light To speak no more, and now pass’d on with leave From the mild poet gain’d, when following came Another, from whose top a sound confus’d, Forth issuing, drew our eyes that way to look. As the Sicilian bull, that rightfully His cries first echoed, who had shap’d its mould, Did so rebellow, with the voice of him Tormented, that the brazen… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xix 27d-28a; xx 28b~29d; PARADISE, iv [49-63] lllb; vin [1-12] 116d✓ correct

WOE to thee, Simon Magus! woe to you, His wretched followers! who the things of God, Which should be wedded unto goodness, them, Rapacious as ye are, do prostitute For gold and silver in adultery! Now must the trumpet sound for you, since yours Is the third chasm. Upon the following vault We now had mounted, where the rock impends Directly o’er the centre of the foss. Wisdom Supreme! how… Read the rest of this passage →

Dwine Comedy, HELL, iv 5c-7a; PUR- GATORY, in [16-45] 56a-b✓ correct

BROKE the deep slumber in my brain a crash Of heavy thunder, that I shook myself, As one by main force rous’d. Risen upright, My rested eyes I mov’d around, and search’d With fixed ken to know what place it was, Wherein I stood. For certain on the brink I found me of the lamentable vale, The dread abyss, that joins a thund’rous sound Of plaints innumerable. Dark and deep, And thick with… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xn [100-139] 17b-d; PURGATORY, xi [73-117] 69c-70a; PARADISE, vi 113c-115a 23 HOBBES: leviathan, PART i, 76c-d 25 MONTAIGNE* Essays, 107a-112d; 126b-131a; 382b-383d, 400b-d, 443d-446a, 486b-489b; 538d-540b 26 SHAKESPEARE' 3rd Henry VI, ACT n, sc v [1-54] 81d-82a / Richard II, ACT iv, sc i [162- 334] 343b 345a / 2nd Henry IV, ACT HI, sc i [4-31] 482d-483a / Henry V, ACT iv, sc i [247- 301] 554a-c✓ correct

THE place where to descend the precipice We came, was rough as Alp, and on its verge Such object lay, as every eye would shun. As is that ruin, which Adice’s stream On this side Trento struck, should’ring the wave, Or loos’d by earthquake or for lack of prop; For from the mountain’s summit, whence it mov’d To the low level, so the headlong rock Is shiver’d, that some passage it might… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, x [94-108] 14c-d; PURGATORY, in [16-45] 56a-b; PARA- DISE, xv [37-69] 128d-129a; xix [22-66] I35b-d; xx [130-148] 138a-b; xxi [73-102] 139a-b; xxvi [91-108] 146d-147a; xxx [1-123] I51d-153a✓ correct

NOW by a secret pathway we proceed, Between the walls, that hem the region round, And the tormented souls: my master first, I close behind his steps. “Virtue supreme!” I thus began; “who through these ample orbs In circuit lead’st me, even as thou will’st, Speak thou, and satisfy my wish. May those, Who lie within these sepulchres, be seen? Already all the lids are rais’d, and none O’er… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxvm (1-6] 41b; xxxiv [1-27] 51b-c; PURGATORY, xxxi [133-145] 102b; PARADISE, i [38-81] 106c-107a; b x [28-48] 120c-d; xxin [40-69] 141d-142a; xxx [19-36] 152a; xxxm 156b-157d b✓ correct

WHO, e’en in words unfetter’d, might at full Tell of the wounds and blood that now I saw, Though he repeated oft the tale? No tongue So vast a theme could equal, speech and thought Both impotent alike. If in one band Collected, stood the people all, who e’er Pour’d on Apulia’s happy soil their blood, Slain by the Trojans, and in that long war When of the rings the measur’d booty made A… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xv-xvi 21a- 23d; PURGATORY, xxvi [25-87] 93b-d✓ correct

One of the solid margins bears us now Envelop’d in the mist, that from the stream Arising, hovers o’er, and saves from fire Both piers and water. As the Flemings rear Their mound, ’twixt Ghent and Bruges, to chase back The ocean, fearing his tumultuous tide That drives toward them, or the Paduans theirs Along the Brenta, to defend their towns And castles, ere the genial warmth be felt On… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, XXXH [124]- XXXIH [90] 49a-50c; PURGATORY, ix [1-69] 65d-66c; xix [1-69] 81c-82a✓ correct

THE hue, which coward dread on my pale cheeks Imprinted, when I saw my guide turn back, Chas’d that from his which newly they had worn, And inwardly restrain’d it. He, as one Who listens, stood attentive: for his eye Not far could lead him through the sable air, And the thick-gath’ring cloud. “It yet behooves We win this fight” — thus he began — “ if not — Such aid to us is offer’d. — Oh,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xx 28b-29d✓ correct

AND now the verse proceeds to torments new, Fit argument of this the twentieth strain Of the first song, whose awful theme records The spirits whelm’d in woe. Earnest I look’d Into the depth, that open’d to my view, Moisten’d with tears of anguish, and beheld A tribe, that came along the hollow vale, In silence weeping: such their step as walk Quires chanting solemn litanies on earth. As… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, HELL, xxxm [1-90] 49c-50c✓ correct

HIS jaws uplifting from their fell repast, That sinner wip’d them on the hairs o’ th’ head, Which he behind had mangled, then began: “Thy will obeying, I call up afresh Sorrow past cure, which but to think of wrings My heart, or ere I tell on’t. But if words, That I may utter, shall prove seed to bear Fruit of eternal infamy to him, The traitor whom I gnaw at, thou at once Shalt see me… Read the rest of this passage →

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Divine Comedy: Paradise25 passages

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, n [112- 123] 109a; xxvin [1-78] 148d-149c; xxix [13- 45] 150b-c✓ correct

All ye, who in small bark have following sail’d, Eager to listen, on the advent’rous track Of my proud keel, that singing cuts its way, Backward return with speed, and your own shores Revisit, nor put out to open sea, Where losing me, perchance ye may remain Bewilder’d in deep maze. The way I pass Ne’er yet was run: Minerva breathes the gale, Apollo guides me, and another Nine To my rapt… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xxvm- xxix 148d-151d✓ correct

No longer than what time Latona’s twins Cover’d of Libra and the fleecy star, Together both, girding the’ horizon hang, In even balance from the zenith pois’d, Till from that verge, each, changing hemisphere, Part the nice level; e’en so brief a space Did Beatrice’s silence hold. A smile Bat painted on her cheek; and her fix’d gaze Bent on the point, at which my vision fail’d: When thus… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, vn [64-69]✓ correct

I turn that substance bright With fourfold lustre to its orb again, Revolving; and the rest unto their dance With it mov’d also; and like swiftest sparks, In sudden distance from my sight were veil’d. Me doubt possess’d, and “Speak,” it whisper’d me, “Speak, speak unto thy lady, that she quench Thy thirst with drops of sweetness.” Yet blank awe, Which lords it o’er me, even at the… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy PARADISE, xix [40- >, 57] 135c; xxi [73-102] 139a-b; xxvm [98- 114] 149d-150a; xxix [67-84] 151a; [127-145] 151c-d A 4, ANS 476c-477a; A 7, REP 2 478d-479c;✓ correct

The beauteous image, in fruition sweet Gladdening the thronged spirits. Each did seem A little ruby, whereon so intense The sun-beam glow’d that to mine eyes it came In clear refraction. And that, which next Befalls me to portray, voice hath not utter’d, Nor hath ink written, nor in fantasy Was e’er conceiv’d. For I beheld and heard The beak discourse; and, what intention form’d Of many,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, iv [28-48] Ilia; vn [121-148] 116b-c; vm [22-39] 116d- 117a; xix [40-66] 135c-d; xxi [73-102] 139a-b; xxix [13-36] 150b-c; xxxi 153b-154c; xxxn [85-ii4]155c-d 43d✓ correct

Between two kinds of food, both equally Remote and tempting, first a man might die Of hunger, ere he one could freely choose. E’en so would stand a lamb between the maw Of two fierce wolves, in dread of both alike: E’en so between two deer a dog would stand, Wherefore, if I was silent, fault nor praise I to myself impute, by equal doubts Held in suspense, since of necessity It happen’d.… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, vm [31- 39] 117a; xxm [70-139] 142a-c; xxvm 148d- i 12 150b✓ correct

The world was in its day of peril dark Wont to believe the dotage of fond love From the fair Cyprian deity, who rolls In her third epicycle, shed on men By stream of potent radiance: therefore they Of elder time, in their old error blind, Not her alone with sacrifice ador’d And invocation, but like honours paid To Cupid and Dione, deem’d of them Her mother, and her son, him whom they… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy\ PARADISE, i [127-142] 107c-d; xni [52-84] 126a-b✓ correct

His glory, by whose might all things are mov’d, Pierces the universe, and in one part Sheds more resplendence, elsewhere less. In heav’n, That largeliest of his light partakes, was I, Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to such depth absorb’d, That memory cannot follow. Nathless… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xni [91- 108] 126b-c✓ correct

Let him, who would conceive what now I saw, Imagine (and retain the image firm, As mountain rock, the whilst he hears me speak), Of stars fifteen, from midst the ethereal host Selected, that, with lively ray serene, O’ercome the massiest air: thereto imagine The wain, that, in the bosom of our sky, Spins ever on its axle night and day, With the bright summit of that horn which swells Due… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, x [7-21] 120b-c✓ correct

Which breathes from both eternal, the first Might Ineffable, whence eye or mind Can roam, hath in such order all dispos’d, As none may see and fail to enjoy. Raise, then, O reader! to the lofty wheels, with me, Thy ken directed to the point, whereat One motion strikes on th’ other. There begin Thy wonder of the mighty Architect, Who loves his work so inwardly, his eye Doth ever watch it.… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xnr [52- 84] 126a-b; xxiv [130-141] 144a; xxvni [1-78] 148d-149c; xxix [13-36] 150b-c✓ correct

To the great supper of the blessed Lamb, Whereon who feeds hath every wish fulfill’d! If to this man through God’s grace be vouchsaf’d Foretaste of that, which from your table falls, Or ever death his fated term prescribe; Be ye not heedless of his urgent will; But may some influence of your sacred dews Sprinkle him. Of the fount ye alway drink, Whence flows what most he craves.” Beatrice… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xiv [67]- xvin [51] 127c-134a✓ correct

From centre to the circle, and so back From circle to the centre, water moves In the round chalice, even as the blow Impels it, inwardly, or from without. Such was the image glanc’d into my mind, As the great spirit of Aquinum ceas’d; And Beatrice after him her words Resum’d alternate: “Need there is (tho’ yet He tells it to you not in words, nor e’en In thought) that he should fathom to… Read the rest of this passage →

Dwine Comedy, PARADISE, xxvi [70- 142] 146c-147b✓ correct

With dazzled eyes, whilst wond’ring I remain’d, Forth of the beamy flame which dazzled me, Issued a breath, that in attention mute Detain’d me; and these words it spake: “’T were well, That, long as till thy vision, on my form O’erspent, regain its virtue, with discourse Thou compensate the brief delay. Say then, Beginning, to what point thy soul aspires: And meanwhile rest assur’d, that… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xn [22- 105] 123d-124d; xxix [67-126] 151a-c✓ correct

Soon as its final word the blessed flame Had rais’d for utterance, straight the holy mill Began to wheel, nor yet had once revolv’d, Or ere another, circling, compass’d it, Motion to motion, song to song, conjoining, Song, that as much our muses doth excel, Our Sirens with their tuneful pipes, as ray Of primal splendour doth its faint reflex. As when, if Juno bid her handmaid forth, Two… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy✓ correct

From hence is distant; and the shadowy cone Almost to level on our earth declines; When from the midmost of this blue abyss By turns some star is to our vision lost. And straightway as the handmaid of the sun Puts forth her radiant brow, all, light by light, Fade, and the spangled firmament shuts in, E’en to the loveliest of the glittering throng. Thus vanish’d gradually from my… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xxxm [76- 93] 157a✓ correct

O virgin mother, daughter of thy Son, Created beings all in lowliness Surpassing, as in height, above them all, Term by th’ eternal counsel pre-ordain’d, Ennobler of thy nature, so advanc’d In thee, that its great Maker did not scorn, Himself, in his own work enclos’d to dwell! For in thy womb rekindling shone the love Reveal’d, whose genial influence makes now This flower to germin in… Read the rest of this passage →

Dwme Comedy, PARADISE, in [64-90] HOa-b; xix [85-90] 135d-J36a 23 HOBBES. leviathan, PART n, 113b-c, 162c; PART iv, 271b ? 24 RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK iv, 265b✓ correct

That sun, which erst with love my bosom warm’d Had of fair truth unveil’d the sweet aspect, By proof of right, and of the false reproof; And I, to own myself convinc’d and free Of doubt, as much as needed, rais’d my head Erect for speech. But soon a sight appear’d, Which, so intent to mark it, held me fix’d, That of confession I no longer thought. As through translucent and smooth glass,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, v [13-84] 112b 113a passim✓ correct

If beyond earthly wont, the flame of love Illume me, so that I o’ercome thy power Of vision, marvel not: but learn the cause In that perfection of the sight, which soon As apprehending, hasteneth on to reach The good it apprehends. I well discern, How in thine intellect already shines The light eternal, which to view alone Ne’er fails to kindle love; and if aught else Your love seduces,… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xv [1-12] 128b-c✓ correct

True love, that ever shows itself as clear In kindness, as loose appetite in wrong, Silenced that lyre harmonious, and still’d The sacred chords, that are by heav’n’s right hand Unwound and tighten’d, flow to righteous prayers Should they not hearken, who, to give me will For praying, in accordance thus were mute? He hath in sooth good cause for endless grief, Who, for the love of thing… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, vi [28-111] 113d-114d✓ correct

Against the motions of the heav’n, that roll’d Consenting with its course, when he of yore, Lavinia’s spouse, was leader of the flight, A hundred years twice told and more, his seat At Europe’s extreme point, the bird of Jove Held, near the mountains, whence he issued first. There, under shadow of his sacred plumes Swaying the world, till through successive hands To mine he came devolv’d.… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xi [1-12] 122a✓ correct

O fond anxiety of mortal men! How vain and inconclusive arguments Are those, which make thee beat thy wings below For statues one, and one for aphorisms Was hunting; this the priesthood follow’d, that By force or sophistry aspir’d to rule; To rob another, and another sought By civil business wealth; one moiling lay Tangled in net of sensual delight, And one to witless indolence… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, XVHI [52]- xx [148] 134a-138b✓ correct

When, disappearing, from our hemisphere, The world’s enlightener vanishes, and day On all sides wasteth, suddenly the sky, Erewhile irradiate only with his beam, Is yet again unfolded, putting forth Innumerable lights wherein one shines. Of such vicissitude in heaven I thought, As the great sign, that marshaleth the world And the world’s leaders, in the blessed beak Was silent; for that… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xvm [52]- b xx [148] 134a-138b passim✓ correct

Now in his word, sole, ruminating, joy’d That blessed spirit; and I fed on mine, Tempting the sweet with bitter: she meanwhile, Who led me unto God, admonish’d: “Muse On other thoughts: bethink thee, that near Him I dwell, who recompenseth every wrong.” At the sweet sounds of comfort straight I turn’d; And, in the saintly eyes what love was seen, I leave in silence here: nor through… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xvn [13- 42] 132b-c✓ correct

Such as the youth, who came to Clymene To certify himself of that reproach, Which had been fasten’d on him, (he whose end Still makes the fathers chary to their sons), E’en such was I; nor unobserv’d was such Of Beatrice, and that saintly lamp, Who had erewhile for me his station mov’d; When thus by lady: “Give thy wish free vent, That it may issue, bearing true report Of the mind’s… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xxvin [1-78] 148d-149c 23 IIoBBEs: Leviathan, PART i, 78d-79a; 81a-c✓ correct

So she who doth imparadise my soul, Had drawn the veil from off our pleasant life, And bar’d the truth of poor mortality; When lo! as one who, in a mirror, spies The shining of a flambeau at his back, Lit sudden ore he deem of its approach, And turneth to resolve him, if the glass Have told him true, and sees the record faithful As note is to its metre; even thus, I well remember, did… Read the rest of this passage →

Divine Comedy, PARADISE, xvi 130a- 132a✓ correct

O slight respect of man’s nobility! I never shall account it marvelous, That our infirm affection here below Thou mov’st to boasting, when I could not choose, E’en in that region of unwarp’d desire, In heav’n itself, but make my vaunt in thee! Yet cloak thou art soon shorten’d, for that time, Unless thou be eked out from day to day, Goes round thee with his shears. Resuming then With… Read the rest of this passage →

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