The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1884)Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 - Broj stranica: 354 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: THE INFERNO. CANTO I. In middlel of the journey of our days I found that I was in a darksome wood2? The right road lost and vanished in the maze. Ah me ! how hard to make it understood How rough that wood was, wild, and terrible: By the mere thought my terror is renewed. More bitter scarce were death. But ere I tell At large of good which there by me was found, I will relate what other things befell. Scarce know I how I entered on that ground, 10 So deeply, at the moment when I passed From the right way, was I in slumber drowned. But when beneath a hill3 arrived at last, Which for the boundary of the valley stood, That with such terror had my heart harassed, 1 Middle: In his Convito 1300, the year in which the (iv. 23), comparing human life action of the poem is laid, to an arch, Dante says that at 8 Darksome wood: A state of the age of thirty-five a man has spiritual darkness or despair into reached the top and begins to which he has gradually drifted, go down. As he was born in not without fault of his own. 1265 that was his own age in 3 A hill: Lower down thisI upwards looked and saw its shoulders glowed, Radiant already with that planet's l light Which guideth surely upon every road. A little then was quieted by the sight The fear which deep within my heart had Iain 20 Through all my sore experience of the night. And as the man, who, breathing short in pain, Hath scaped the sea and struggled to the shore, Turns back to gaze upon the perilous main; Even so my soul which fear still forward bore Turned to review the pass whence I egressed, And which none, living, ever left before. My wearied frame refreshed with scanty rest, I to ascend the lonely hill essayed; The lower foot2 still that on which I pre... |
