Image from page 156 of "The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri" (1916)
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Title: The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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take the lioness And the young lions at the pass : then forth Stretched he his merciless talons, grasping one. One helpless innocent, Learchus named, 10 Whom swinging down he dashed upon a rock ; And with her other burden, self-destroyed, The hapless mother plunged. And when the pride Of all presuming Troy fell from its height, Canto XXX] HELL 103. By fortune overwhelmed, and the old king With his realm perished ; then did Hecuba, A wretch forlorn and captive, when she saw Polyxena first slaughtered, and her son. Her Polydorus, on the wild sea-beach Next met the mourners view, then reft of sense 20 Did she run barking even as a dog ; Such mighty power had grief to wrench her soul. But neer the Furies, or of Thebes, or Troy, With such fell cruelty were seen, their goads Infixing in the limbs of man or beast. As now two pale and naked ghosts I saw, That gnarling wildly scampered, like the swine Excluded from his sty. One reached Capocchio, And in the neck-joint sticking deep his fangs,
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Dragged him, that oer the solid pavement rubbed 30His belly stretched out prone. The other shape.He of Arezzo, there left trembling, spake : That sprite of air is Schicchi; in like moodOf random mischief vents he still his spite. To whom I answering : Oh ! as thou dost hopeThe other may not flesh its jaws on thee.Be patient to inform us, who it is.Ere it speed hence.— That is the ancient soulOf wretched Myrrha, he replied, who burnedWith most unholy flame for her own sire, 40 And a false shape assuming, so performedThe deed of sin ; een as the other there,That onward passes, dared to counterfeitDonatis features, to feigned testamentThe seal affixing, that himself might gain,For his own share, the lady of the herd. When vanished the two furious shades, on whom 104 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxx Mine eye was held, I turned it back to view The other cursed spirits. One I saw In fashion like a lute, had but the groin 50 Been severed where it meets the forked part. Swoln dropsy, dispropo
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Image from page 156 of "The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri" (1916)
Identifier: visionorhell00dant
Title: The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Humphrey Milford : Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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take the lioness And the young lions at the pass : then forth Stretched he his merciless talons, grasping one. One helpless innocent, Learchus named, 10 Whom swinging down he dashed upon a rock ; And with her other burden, self-destroyed, The hapless mother plunged. And when the pride Of all presuming Troy fell from its height, Canto XXX] HELL 103. By fortune overwhelmed, and the old king With his realm perished ; then did Hecuba, A wretch forlorn and captive, when she saw Polyxena first slaughtered, and her son. Her Polydorus, on the wild sea-beach Next met the mourners view, then reft of sense 20 Did she run barking even as a dog ; Such mighty power had grief to wrench her soul. But neer the Furies, or of Thebes, or Troy, With such fell cruelty were seen, their goads Infixing in the limbs of man or beast. As now two pale and naked ghosts I saw, That gnarling wildly scampered, like the swine Excluded from his sty. One reached Capocchio, And in the neck-joint sticking deep his fangs,
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Dragged him, that oer the solid pavement rubbed 30His belly stretched out prone. The other shape.He of Arezzo, there left trembling, spake : That sprite of air is Schicchi; in like moodOf random mischief vents he still his spite. To whom I answering : Oh ! as thou dost hopeThe other may not flesh its jaws on thee.Be patient to inform us, who it is.Ere it speed hence.— That is the ancient soulOf wretched Myrrha, he replied, who burnedWith most unholy flame for her own sire, 40 And a false shape assuming, so performedThe deed of sin ; een as the other there,That onward passes, dared to counterfeitDonatis features, to feigned testamentThe seal affixing, that himself might gain,For his own share, the lady of the herd. When vanished the two furious shades, on whom 104 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxx Mine eye was held, I turned it back to view The other cursed spirits. One I saw In fashion like a lute, had but the groin 50 Been severed where it meets the forked part. Swoln dropsy, dispropo
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