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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HELL. CANTO I. Dante having wandered in the middle of his life into a dark forest, which represents the maze of human passions, attempts to climb the mountain of Virtue, and is repulsed by three beasts, the leopard, the lion, and the wolf, representing the lust of Pleasure, Pride, and Avarice. He is rescued from these by the shade of Virgil, who promises to conduct him through Hell and Purgatory, whilst another worthier spirit shall finally lead him to Paradise. Upon the journey of my life midway, I found myself within a darkling wood, Where from the straight path I had gone astray: Ah, to describe it is a labour rude, So wild the wood, and rough, and thick, and wide, That at the thought the terror is renewed. So bitter is it, 'tis to death allied: But of the good to treat, which there I drew, The lofty things I'll tell, I there descried. How I had entered there I hardly knew, I0 So deep was I in slumber at the part When I had wandered from the pathway true. But when the mountain's slope began to start, There, where there ceased that valley of the night, Which with its terror had so pierced my heart, 15 I looked aloft, and saw its shoulders bright Already mantled with that planet's rays, Which wanderers in all pathways leads aright. That sight the terror of my heart allays, Which in its depths till then no respite gave, 20 That night I past in such a sore amaze. Line 1. Upon the journey of my life midway. Dante gives the date of his vision at the close of his thirty-fifth year, the half of the threescore years and ten allotted by the Psalmist. This was A.D. 1300, and events that occurred at a later period are thus introduced as prophecy. Line 17- Already mantled with that planet's rays. The Sun, the rays of Truth, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217580281 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217580289 |
| Weight | 1.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 In |
| List Price | $28.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 540 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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