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"Here's an item for your paper," he said to Patsy, who was busy at her
desk. "The mills at Royal will never be rebuilt, and Millville has lost
the only chance it ever had of becoming a manufacturing center. The
whole settlement, which belonged to Boglin and myself, went up in smoke,
and I'm willing to let it go at tha... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
The following forenoon the liveryman at the Junction brought to
Millville a passenger who had arrived by the morning train--a quiet,
boyish-looking man with a shock of brick-red hair and a thin, freckled
face. He was driven directly to the Merrick farm, where Uncle John
received him cordially, but with surprise, and a... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
In spite of this, the Tribune was essentially a "girls' paper," since
Thursday Smith was the only man employed on it--not counting the "dummy"
editor, Arthur Weldon, who did nothing but keep the books, and found
this not an arduous task. Hetty, at Miss Briggs' desk, attended the
telegraph instrument and long-distance ... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"One trouble," said Patsy, "is that every inhabitant of Millville wants
to see his or her name in print every day, whether he or she has done
anything worthy of publication or not. If the name isn't printed, we've
made an enemy; and, if it is, the paper is sure to suffer more or less
ridicule."
"That is quite true, my... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"When you discover who Thursday Smith is," said she, "the Millville
Tribune will lose its right bower."
"Why?"
"Before his accident, or whatever it was that made him lose his memory,
he was an unusual man, a man of exceptional ability. You know that."
"We are all inclined to admit it," answered Patsy. "But what then?"... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
The detective greeted the young ladies with polite bows, supplemented by
an aimless compliment on the neatness of their office.
"Never would have recognized it as a newspaper sanctum," said he in his
thin, piping voice. "No litter, no stale pipes lying about, no cursing
and quarreling, no excitement whatever. The edit... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"A daily newspaper," said the major, loudly, as he held up a warning
finger to the bevy of nieces, behind whom Hetty's pale face appeared,
"means a daily grind for all concerned in it. There's no vacation for
the paper, no hyphens, no skipping a day or two if it has a bad cold;
it's the tyrant that leads its slaves by... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"And you--are--McCormick?" he faltered.
"Of course."
Smith stared a moment and then shook his head.
"It's no use," he said despairingly; "I can't recall a single memory of
either Harold Melville or--or his friend McCormick. Pardon me, sir; I
must confess my mind is absolutely blank concerning all my life previous
to t... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"Say it!" commanded Smith.
"I will. Many New Yorkers remember the firm of Melville & Ford, the
cleverest pair of confidence men who ever undertook to fleece the
wealthy lambs of the metropolis."
"Confidence men!" gasped Smith, in a voice of horror.
"Yes, putting it mildly. You were both jolly good fellows and made a
h... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
During this recital Smith sat with his eyes eagerly fixed upon the
speaker's face, dwelling upon every word. At the conclusion of the story
he dropped his face in his hands a moment, visibly shuddering. Then
again he looked up, and after reading the circle of pitying faces
confronting him he bravely met Mr. Merrick's ... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"That's it, exactly," asserted Beth. "It's like hearing a tale of an
ancestor, Thursday, or of some member of your family who lived before
you. You cannot be responsible, in any way, for another man's
wickedness."
"As I look at it," said Louise reflectively, "you are just two years
old, Thursday, and innocent of any w... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
Smith was too happy to refuse. He took Fogerty's hand.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE JOURNALISTS ABDICATE
Mr. Merrick told Thursday Smith, in an apologetic way, how he had hired
Fogerty to unravel the mystery of his former life, and how the great
detective had gone to work so intelligently and skillfully that, with
the aid of a... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
After luncheon, Patsy, while arranging her galley proofs, inquired of
Louise for the local column.
"Hetty said she'd attend to it," was the reply; "but we are all upset
to-day and things are at sixes and sevens."
"The column is all prepared, Miss Doyle," announced Hetty.
"Where is it?"
"Thursday has made it ready for ... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"You won't be able to hold Hetty in Millville long. Her talent enables
her to draw big salaries in New York and it isn't likely she will
consent to bury herself in this little town."
"I'm not so sure," said Patsy. "If we can hold Thursday Smith we can
hold Hetty, you know."
"We won't need to hold either of them for lo... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
Then he invited Thursday Smith and Hetty to dine at the farm on Saturday
evening, which was the one evening in the week they were free, there
being no Sunday morning paper. Thursday had bought a new suit of clothes
since he came to the _Tribune_, and Hetty, after much urging, finally
prevailed upon him to accept the i... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"That," said Patsy, with a laugh, "is very clearly and concisely put, my
dear Uncle."
"It was never intended to be a permanent thing, anyhow," continued Mr.
Merrick; "yet I must express my admiration for the courage and talent my
nieces have displayed in forcing a temporary success where failure was
the logical conclu... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"I have settled on my demands," replied Mr. Merrick, "and hope you will
agree to them. You must pay me for the use of the outfit twenty per cent
of your net profits, over and above all your operating and living
expenses. When this sum has reimbursed me for my investment, the outfit
will belong to you."
Thursday Smith ... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"When do you intend to be married?" asked Patsy.
"We have scarcely thought of that, as yet, for until this evening we did
not know what the future held in store for us."
"Couldn't you arrange the wedding before we leave?" asked Beth. "It
would delight us so much to be present at the ceremony."
"I think we owe the youn... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
"Quite true," agreed the major.
"Then," said Smith, with evident disappointment, "I must use the hateful
name of Melville for the wedding, and afterward abandon it for as long
as possible."
The nieces were greatly pleased with Uncle John's arrangement, which
relieved them of the newspaper and also furnished Thursday a... | Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) | 1856 | 1919 | ['en'] | 24 | {'Farm life -- Juvenile fiction', 'Uncles -- Juvenile fiction', 'Family -- Juvenile fiction', 'Mystery and detective stories', 'Women authors -- Juvenile fiction', 'Young women -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction', 'Cousins -- Juvenile fiction', 'Newspaper publishing -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10059 | |
HELL
OR THE INFERNO FROM THE DIVINE COMEDY
BY
Dante Alighieri
Translated by
THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A.
Contents
CANTO I.
CANTO II.
CANTO III.
CANTO IV.
CANTO V.
CANTO VI.
CANTO VII.
CANTO VIII.
CANTO IX.
CANTO X.
CANTO XI.
CANTO XII.
CANTO XIII.
CANTO XIV.
CANTO XV.
CANTO XVI.
CANTO XVII.
CANTO XVIII... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
With his head held aloft and hunger-mad,
That e’en the air was fear-struck. A she-wolf
Was at his heels, who in her leanness seem’d
Full of all wants, and many a land hath made
Disconsolate ere now. She with such fear
O’erwhelmed me, at the sight of her appall’d,
That of the height all hope I lost. As one,
Who with hi... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Onward he mov’d, I close his steps pursu’d.
CANTO II
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 g... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
(Note: Beatrice. I use this word, as it is
pronounced in the Italian, as consisting of four
syllables, of which the third is a long one.)
She then was silent, and I thus began:
“O Lady! by whose influence alone,
Mankind excels whatever is contain’d
Within that heaven which hath the smallest orb,
So thy command deligh... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
As florets, by the frosty air of night
Bent down and clos’d, when day has blanch’d their leaves,
Rise all unfolded on their spiry stems;
So was my fainting vigour new restor’d,
And to my heart such kindly courage ran,
That I as one undaunted soon replied:
“O full of pity she, who undertook
My succour! and thou kind wh... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
I then: “Master! what doth aggrieve them thus,
That they lament so loud?” He straight replied:
“That will I tell thee briefly. These of death
No hope may entertain: and their blind life
So meanly passes, that all other lots
They envy. Fame of them the world hath none,
Nor suffers; mercy and justice scorn them both.
Sp... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Straightway in silence fell the shaggy cheeks
Of him the boatman o’er the livid lake,
Around whose eyes glar’d wheeling flames. Meanwhile
Those spirits, faint and naked, color chang’d,
And gnash’d their teeth, soon as the cruel words
They heard. God and their parents they blasphem’d,
The human kind, the place, the tim... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Now let us to the blind world there beneath
Descend;” the bard began all pale of look:
“I go the first, and thou shalt follow next.”
Then I his alter’d hue perceiving, thus:
“How may I speed, if thou yieldest to dread,
Who still art wont to comfort me in doubt?”
He then: “The anguish of that race below
With pity stai... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
We, while he spake, ceas’d not our onward road,
Still passing through the wood; for so I name
Those spirits thick beset. We were not far
On this side from the summit, when I kenn’d
A flame, that o’er the darken’d hemisphere
Prevailing shin’d. Yet we a little space
Were distant, not so far but I in part
Discover’d, tha... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
We to one side retir’d, into a place
Open and bright and lofty, whence each one
Stood manifest to view. Incontinent
There on the green enamel of the plain
Were shown me the great spirits, by whose sight
I am exalted in my own esteem.
Electra there I saw accompanied
By many, among whom Hector I knew,
Anchises’ pious so... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“O thou! who to this residence of woe
Approachest?” when he saw me coming, cried
Minos, relinquishing his dread employ,
“Look how thou enter here; beware in whom
Thou place thy trust; let not the entrance broad
Deceive thee to thy harm.” To him my guide:
“Wherefore exclaimest? Hinder not his way
By destiny appointed; ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
When I had heard my sage instructor name
Those dames and knights of antique days, o’erpower’d
By pity, well-nigh in amaze my mind
Was lost; and I began: “Bard! willingly
I would address those two together coming,
Which seem so light before the wind.” He thus:
“Note thou, when nearer they to us approach.”
“Then by that... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
CANTO VI
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’... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Thy city heap’d with envy to the brim,
Ay that the measure overflows its bounds,
Held me in brighter days. Ye citizens
Were wont to name me Ciacco. For the sin
Of glutt’ny, damned vice, beneath this rain,
E’en as thou see’st, I with fatigue am worn;
Nor I sole spirit in this woe: all these
Have by like crime incurr’d... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
He then: “Consult thy knowledge; that decides
That as each thing to more perfection grows,
It feels more sensibly both good and pain.
Though ne’er to true perfection may arrive
This race accurs’d, yet nearer then than now
They shall approach it.” Compassing that path
Circuitous we journeyed, and discourse
Much more th... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
He straight replied: “In their first life these all
In mind were so distorted, that they made,
According to due measure, of their wealth,
No use. This clearly from their words collect,
Which they howl forth, at each extremity
Arriving of the circle, where their crime
Contrary’ in kind disparts them. To the church
Were... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
The good instructor spake; “Now seest thou, son!
The souls of those, whom anger overcame.
This too for certain know, that underneath
The water dwells a multitude, whose sighs
Into these bubbles make the surface heave,
As thine eye tells thee wheresoe’er it turn.”
Fix’d in the slime they say: “Sad once were we
In the s... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
I answer’d: “Though I come, I tarry not;
But who art thou, that art become so foul?”
“One, as thou seest, who mourn:” he straight replied.
To which I thus: “In mourning and in woe,
Curs’d spirit! tarry thou.g I know thee well,
E’en thus in filth disguis’d.” Then stretch’d he forth
Hands to the bark; whereof my teacher... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“O my lov’d guide! who more than seven times
Security hast render’d me, and drawn
From peril deep, whereto I stood expos’d,
Desert me not,” I cried, “in this extreme.
And if our onward going be denied,
Together trace we back our steps with speed.”
My liege, who thither had conducted me,
Replied: “Fear not: for of our ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Thus I inquiring. “Rarely,” he replied,
“It chances, that among us any makes
This journey, which I wend. Erewhile ’tis true
Once came I here beneath, conjur’d by fell
Erictho, sorceress, who compell’d the shades
Back to their bodies. No long space my flesh
Was naked of me, when within these walls
She made me enter, to... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Mine eyes he loos’d, and spake: “And now direct
Thy visual nerve along that ancient foam,
There, thickest where the smoke ascends.” As frogs
Before their foe the serpent, through the wave
Ply swiftly all, till at the ground each one
Lies on a heap; more than a thousand spirits
Destroy’d, so saw I fleeing before one
Wh... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
I thus: “Master! say who are these, interr’d
Within these vaults, of whom distinct we hear
The dolorous sighs?” He answer thus return’d:
“The arch-heretics are here, accompanied
By every sect their followers; and much more,
Than thou believest, tombs are freighted: like
With like is buried; and the monuments
Are diffe... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
He, soon as there I stood at the tomb’s foot,
Ey’d me a space, then in disdainful mood
Address’d me: “Say, what ancestors were thine?”
I, willing to obey him, straight reveal’d
The whole, nor kept back aught: whence he, his brow
Somewhat uplifting, cried: “Fiercely were they
Adverse to me, my party, and the blood
From... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“So may thy lineage find at last repose,”
I thus adjur’d him, “as thou solve this knot,
Which now involves my mind. If right I hear,
Ye seem to view beforehand, that which time
Leads with him, of the present uninform’d.”
“We view, as one who hath an evil sight,”
He answer’d, “plainly, objects far remote:
So much of hi... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Whereon this scroll I mark’d: “I have in charge
Pope Anastasius, whom Photinus drew
From the right path.—Ere our descent behooves
We make delay, that somewhat first the sense,
To the dire breath accustom’d, afterward
Regard it not.” My master thus; to whom
Answering I spake: “Some compensation find
That the time past ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
I thus: “Instructor, clearly thy discourse
Proceeds, distinguishing the hideous chasm
And its inhabitants with skill exact.
But tell me this: they of the dull, fat pool,
Whom the rain beats, or whom the tempest drives,
Or who with tongues so fierce conflicting meet,
Wherefore within the city fire-illum’d
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CANTO XII
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... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
At seeing us descend they each one stood;
And issuing from the troop, three sped with bows
And missile weapons chosen first; of whom
One cried from far: “Say to what pain ye come
Condemn’d, who down this steep have journied? Speak
From whence ye stand, or else the bow I draw.”
To whom my guide: “Our answer shall be ma... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
A race I next espied, who held the head,
And even all the bust above the stream.
’Midst these I many a face remember’d well.
Thus shallow more and more the blood became,
So that at last it but imbru’d the feet;
And there our passage lay athwart the foss.
“As ever on this side the boiling wave
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Thereat a little stretching forth my hand,
From a great wilding gather’d I a branch,
And straight the trunk exclaim’d: “Why pluck’st thou me?”
Then as the dark blood trickled down its side,
These words it added: “Wherefore tear’st me thus?
Is there no touch of mercy in thy breast?
Men once were we, that now are rooted... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
First somewhat pausing, till the mournful words
Were ended, then to me the bard began:
“Lose not the time; but speak and of him ask,
If more thou wish to learn.” Whence I replied:
“Question thou him again of whatsoe’er
Will, as thou think’st, content me; for no power
Have I to ask, such pity’ is at my heart.”
He thus ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
When o’er it he had paus’d, my master spake:
“Say who wast thou, that at so many points
Breath’st out with blood thy lamentable speech?”
He answer’d: “Oh, ye spirits: arriv’d in time
To spy the shameful havoc, that from me
My leaves hath sever’d thus, gather them up,
And at the foot of their sad parent-tree
Carefully ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Unceasing was the play of wretched hands,
Now this, now that way glancing, to shake off
The heat, still falling fresh. I thus began:
“Instructor! thou who all things overcom’st,
Except the hardy demons, that rush’d forth
To stop our entrance at the gate, say who
Is yon huge spirit, that, as seems, heeds not
The burnin... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
So spake my guide; and I him thence besought,
That having giv’n me appetite to know,
The food he too would give, that hunger crav’d.
“In midst of ocean,” forthwith he began,
“A desolate country lies, which Crete is nam’d,
Under whose monarch in old times the world
Liv’d pure and chaste. A mountain rises there,
Call’d ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
CANTO XV
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
Alo... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“There up aloft,” I answer’d, “in the life
Serene, I wander’d in a valley lost,
Before mine age had to its fullness reach’d.
But yester-morn I left it: then once more
Into that vale returning, him I met;
And by this path homeward he leads me back.”
“If thou,” he answer’d, “follow but thy star,
Thou canst not miss at l... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Thereat my sapient guide upon his right
Turn’d himself back, then look’d at me and spake:
“He listens to good purpose who takes note.”
I not the less still on my way proceed,
Discoursing with Brunetto, and inquire
Who are most known and chief among his tribe.
“To know of some is well;” thus he replied,
“But of the res... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“If misery of this drear wilderness,”
Thus one began, “added to our sad cheer
And destitute, do call forth scorn on us
And our entreaties, let our great renown
Incline thee to inform us who thou art,
That dost imprint with living feet unharm’d
The soil of Hell. He, in whose track thou see’st
My steps pursuing, naked t... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
This said, they broke the circle, and so swift
Fled, that as pinions seem’d their nimble feet.
Not in so short a time might one have said
“Amen,” as they had vanish’d. Straight my guide
Pursu’d his track. I follow’d; and small space
Had we pass’d onward, when the water’s sound
Was now so near at hand, that we had scar... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
CANTO XVII
“Lo! the fell monster with the deadly sting!
Who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls
And firm embattled spears, and with his filth
Taints all the world!” Thus me my guide address’d,
And beckon’d him, that he should come to shore,
Near to the stony causeway’s utmost edge.
Forthwith that image vil... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Noting the visages of some, who lay
Beneath the pelting of that dolorous fire,
One of them all I knew not; but perceiv’d,
That pendent from his neck each bore a pouch
With colours and with emblems various mark’d,
On which it seem’d as if their eye did feed.
And when amongst them looking round I came,
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Not greater was the dread when Phaeton
The reins let drop at random, whence high heaven,
Whereof signs yet appear, was wrapt in flames;
Nor when ill-fated Icarus perceiv’d,
By liquefaction of the scalded wax,
The trusted pennons loosen’d from his loins,
His sire exclaiming loud, “Ill way thou keep’st!”
Than was my dre... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
On our right hand new misery I saw,
New pains, new executioners of wrath,
That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below
Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came,
Meeting our faces from the middle point,
With us beyond but with a larger stride.
E’en thus the Romans, when the year returns
Of Jubilee, with better speed to... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
From the old bridge we ey’d the pack, who came
From th’ other side towards us, like the rest,
Excoriate from the lash. My gentle guide,
By me unquestion’d, thus his speech resum’d:
“Behold that lofty shade, who this way tends,
And seems too woe-begone to drop a tear.
How yet the regal aspect he retains!
Jason is he, w... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
My leader thus: “A little further stretch
Thy face, that thou the visage well mayst note
Of that besotted, sluttish courtezan,
Who there doth rend her with defiled nails,
Now crouching down, now risen on her feet.
“Thais is this, the harlot, whose false lip
Answer’d her doting paramour that ask’d,
‘Thankest me much!’—... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
There stood I like the friar, that doth shrive
A wretch for murder doom’d, who e’en when fix’d,
Calleth him back, whence death awhile delays.
He shouted: “Ha! already standest there?
Already standest there, O Boniface!
By many a year the writing play’d me false.
So early dost thou surfeit with the wealth,
For which th... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Meanwhile, as thus I sung, he, whether wrath
Or conscience smote him, violent upsprang
Spinning on either sole. I do believe
My teacher well was pleas’d, with so compos’d
A lip, he listen’d ever to the sound
Of the true words I utter’d. In both arms
He caught, and to his bosom lifting me
Upward retrac’d the way of his... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Aruns, with more his belly facing, comes.
On Luni’s mountains ’midst the marbles white,
Where delves Carrara’s hind, who wons beneath,
A cavern was his dwelling, whence the stars
And main-sea wide in boundless view he held.
“The next, whose loosen’d tresses overspread
Her bosom, which thou seest not (for each hair
On... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
I answer’d: “Teacher, I conclude thy words
So certain, that all else shall be to me
As embers lacking life. But now of these,
Who here proceed, instruct me, if thou see
Any that merit more especial note.
For thereon is my mind alone intent.”
He straight replied: “That spirit, from whose cheek
The beard sweeps o’er his... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Ye of our bridge!” he cried, “keen-talon’d fiends!
Lo! one of Santa Zita’s elders! Him
Whelm ye beneath, while I return for more.
That land hath store of such. All men are there,
Except Bonturo, barterers: of ‘no’
For lucre there an ‘aye’ is quickly made.”
Him dashing down, o’er the rough rock he turn’d,
Nor ever aft... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Forthwith so fell his pride, that he let drop
The instrument of torture at his feet,
And to the rest exclaim’d: “We have no power
To strike him.” Then to me my guide: “O thou!
Who on the bridge among the crags dost sit
Low crouching, safely now to me return.”
I rose, and towards him moved with speed: the fiends
Meanti... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
To leftward o’er the pier they turn’d; but each
Had first between his teeth prest close the tongue,
Toward their leader for a signal looking,
Which he with sound obscene triumphant gave.
CANTO XXII
It hath been heretofore my chance to see
Horsemen with martial order shifting camp,
To onset sallying, or in muster ran... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Straight Ciriatto, from whose mouth a tusk
Issued on either side, as from a boar,
Ript him with one of these. ’Twixt evil claws
The mouse had fall’n: but Barbariccia cried,
Seizing him with both arms: “Stand thou apart,
While I do fix him on my prong transpierc’d.”
Then added, turning to my guide his face,
“Inquire of... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Cagnazzo at that word deriding grinn’d,
Then wagg’d the head and spake: “Hear his device,
Mischievous as he is, to plunge him down.”
Whereto he thus, who fail’d not in rich store
Of nice-wove toils; “Mischief forsooth extreme,
Meant only to procure myself more woe!”
No longer Alichino then refrain’d,
But thus, the res... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
The present fray had turn’d my thoughts to muse
Upon old Aesop’s fable, where he told
What fate unto the mouse and frog befell.
For language hath not sounds more like in sense,
Than are these chances, if the origin
And end of each be heedfully compar’d.
And as one thought bursts from another forth,
So afterward from t... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
When over us the steep they reach’d; but fear
In him was none; for that high Providence,
Which plac’d them ministers of the fifth foss,
Power of departing thence took from them all.
There in the depth we saw a painted tribe,
Who pac’d with tardy steps around, and wept,
Faint in appearance and o’ercome with toil.
Caps ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“O friars!” I began, “your miseries—”
But there brake off, for one had caught my eye,
Fix’d to a cross with three stakes on the ground:
He, when he saw me, writh’d himself, throughout
Distorted, ruffling with deep sighs his beard.
And Catalano, who thereof was ’ware,
Thus spake: “That pierced spirit, whom intent
Thou ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
At length the point of our descent we reach’d
From the last flag: soon as to that arriv’d,
So was the breath exhausted from my lungs,
I could no further, but did seat me there.
“Now needs thy best of man;” so spake my guide:
“For not on downy plumes, nor under shade
Of canopy reposing, fame is won,
Without which whoso... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Amid this dread exuberance of woe
Ran naked spirits wing’d with horrid fear,
Nor hope had they of crevice where to hide,
Or heliotrope to charm them out of view.
With serpents were their hands behind them bound,
Which through their reins infix’d the tail and head
Twisted in folds before. And lo! on one
Near to our sid... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
CANTO XXV
When he had spoke, the sinner rais’d his hands
Pointed in mockery, and cried: “Take them, God!
I level them at thee!” From that day forth
The serpents were my friends; for round his neck
One of then rolling twisted, as it said,
“Be silent, tongue!” Another to his arms
Upgliding, tied them, riveting itself
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“Nor only one.” The two heads now became
One, and two figures blended in one form
Appear’d, where both were lost. Of the four lengths
Two arms were made: the belly and the chest
The thighs and legs into such members chang’d,
As never eye hath seen. Of former shape
All trace was vanish’d. Two yet neither seem’d
That im... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
So saw I fluctuate in successive change
Th’ unsteady ballast of the seventh hold:
And here if aught my tongue have swerv’d, events
So strange may be its warrant. O’er mine eyes
Confusion hung, and on my thoughts amaze.
Yet ’scap’d they not so covertly, but well
I mark’d Sciancato: he alone it was
Of the three first th... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Upon the bridge I forward bent to look,
And grasp’d a flinty mass, or else had fall’n,
Though push’d not from the height. The guide, who mark’d
How I did gaze attentive, thus began:
“Within these ardours are the spirits, each
Swath’d in confining fire.”—“Master, thy word,”
I answer’d, “hath assur’d me; yet I deem’d
Al... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“O brothers!” I began, “who to the west
Through perils without number now have reach’d,
To this the short remaining watch, that yet
Our senses have to wake, refuse not proof
Of the unpeopled world, following the track
Of Phoebus. Call to mind from whence we sprang:
Ye were not form’d to live the life of brutes
But vir... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Leaning I listen’d yet with heedful ear,
When, as he touch’d my side, the leader thus:
“Speak thou: he is a Latian.” My reply
Was ready, and I spake without delay:
“O spirit! who art hidden here below!
Never was thy Romagna without war
In her proud tyrants’ bosoms, nor is now:
But open war there left I none. The state... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Then, yielding to the forceful arguments,
Of silence as more perilous I deem’d,
And answer’d: “Father! since thou washest me
Clear of that guilt wherein I now must fall,
Large promise with performance scant, be sure,
Shall make thee triumph in thy lofty seat.”
“When I was number’d with the dead, then came
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Whilst eagerly I fix on him my gaze,
He ey’d me, with his hands laid his breast bare,
And cried; “Now mark how I do rip me! lo!
“How is Mohammed mangled! before me
Walks Ali weeping, from the chin his face
Cleft to the forelock; and the others all
Whom here thou seest, while they liv’d, did sow
Scandal and schism, and... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Declare, as thou dost wish that I above
May carry tidings of thee, who is he,
In whom that sight doth wake such sad remembrance?”
Forthwith he laid his hand on the cheek-bone
Of one, his fellow-spirit, and his jaws
Expanding, cried: “Lo! this is he I wot of;
He speaks not for himself: the outcast this
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CANTO XXIX
So were mine eyes inebriate with view
Of the vast multitude, whom various wounds
Disfigur’d, that they long’d to stay and weep.
But Virgil rous’d me: “What yet gazest on?
Wherefore doth fasten yet thy sight below
Among the maim’d and miserable shades?
Thou hast not shewn in any chasm beside
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We on the utmost shore of the long rock
Descended still to leftward. Then my sight
Was livelier to explore the depth, wherein
The minister of the most mighty Lord,
All-searching Justice, dooms to punishment
The forgers noted on her dread record.
More rueful was it not methinks to see
The nation in Aegina droop, what t... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Arezzo was my dwelling,” answer’d one,
“And me Albero of Sienna brought
To die by fire; but that, for which I died,
Leads me not here. True is in sport I told him,
That I had learn’d to wing my flight in air.
And he admiring much, as he was void
Of wisdom, will’d me to declare to him
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To whom I answ’ring: “Oh! as thou dost hope,
The other may not flesh its jaws on thee,
Be patient to inform us, who it is,
Ere it speed hence.”—“That is the ancient soul
Of wretched Myrrha,” he replied, “who burn’d
With most unholy flame for her own sire,
“And a false shape assuming, so perform’d
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“Who are that abject pair,” I next inquir’d,
“That closely bounding thee upon thy right
Lie smoking, like a band in winter steep’d
In the chill stream?”—“When to this gulf I dropt,”
He answer’d, “here I found them; since that hour
They have not turn’d, nor ever shall, I ween,
Till time hath run his course. One is that... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“More grievous fault than thine has been, less shame,”
My master cried, “might expiate. Therefore cast
All sorrow from thy soul; and if again
Chance bring thee, where like conference is held,
Think I am ever at thy side. To hear
Such wrangling is a joy for vulgar minds.”
CANTO XXXI
The very tongue, whose keen reproo... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
All-teeming nature, when her plastic hand
Left framing of these monsters, did display
Past doubt her wisdom, taking from mad War
Such slaves to do his bidding; and if she
Repent her not of th’ elephant and whale,
Who ponders well confesses her therein
Wiser and more discreet; for when brute force
And evil will are bac... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“O thou, who in the fortunate vale, that made
Great Scipio heir of glory, when his sword
Drove back the troop of Hannibal in flight,
Who thence of old didst carry for thy spoil
An hundred lions; and if thou hadst fought
In the high conflict on thy brethren’s side,
Seems as men yet believ’d, that through thine arm
The ... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
Not e’en its rim had creak’d. As peeps the frog
Croaking above the wave, what time in dreams
The village gleaner oft pursues her toil,
So, to where modest shame appears, thus low
Blue pinch’d and shrin’d in ice the spirits stood,
Moving their teeth in shrill note like the stork.
His face each downward held; their mout... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“Wherefore dost bruise me?” weeping, he exclaim’d,
“Unless thy errand be some fresh revenge
For Montaperto, wherefore troublest me?”
I thus: “Instructor, now await me here,
That I through him may rid me of my doubt.
Thenceforth what haste thou wilt.” The teacher paus’d,
And to that shade I spake, who bitterly
Still cu... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“O thou who show’st so beastly sign of hate
’Gainst him thou prey’st on, let me hear,” said I
“The cause, on such condition, that if right
Warrant thy grievance, knowing who ye are,
And what the colour of his sinning was,
I may repay thee in the world above,
If that, wherewith I speak be moist so long.”
CANTO XXXIII
... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
‘And do thou strip them off from us again.’
Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down
My spirit in stillness. That day and the next
We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth!
Why open’dst not upon us? When we came
To the fourth day, then Geddo at my feet
Outstretch’d did fling him, crying, ‘Hast no help
For me, my fathe... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 | |
“The friar Alberigo,” answered he,
“Am I, who from the evil garden pluck’d
Its fruitage, and am here repaid, the date
More luscious for my fig.”—“Hah!” I exclaim’d,
“Art thou too dead!”—“How in the world aloft
It fareth with my body,” answer’d he,
“I am right ignorant. Such privilege
Hath Ptolomea, that ofttimes the s... | Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Hell | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English', 'Hell -- Poetry'} | PG1005 |
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