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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...patient of delay Exclaiming, “Lano! not so bent for speed Thy sinews, in the lists of Toppo’s field.” And then, for that perchance no longer breath Su... ...en printed in the original language. There is a fine manuscript of it in the British Museum, with an illuminated portrait of Brunetto in his study pr... .... 135. Dante therefore considers Peter as the most illustrious of the three monarchs. v. 129. Harry of England.] Henry III. v. 130. Better issue.] ... ...2. All save one.] The posterity of Charlemagne, the second race of French monarchs, had failed, with the exception of Charles of Lorraine who is s... ... who was behind them all, Was Moses. See No. 3459 of the Harl. MSS. in the British Museum. CANTO XXX v. 1. The polar light.] The seven candlestick... ...hee, how for three hundred years and more It dwelt in Alba, up to those fell lists Where for its sake were met the rival three; The Divine Comedy of ...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. 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 Re...

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