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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The
Gate of Hell All hope abandon, ye who enter here! " ? Souls
horror-chilled, aghast, that went before, How froze your hearts at
this disastrous Door, Whereat your feet relu5lant, iced with fear,
Might make no pause ? for now avails no tear, No prayer, no cry:
but hark! for evermore Hell's multitudinous agonising roar Bounds
and rebellows from the pitfall sheer. And lo! by Acheron's wave,
unending Night Broods o'er the lost, a shapeless fearful gloom; The
sulphurous smoke curls up, and here no light, Save where the
fervours of the eternal pyre Glare lurid from yon ardent spheres of
doom With merciless lambent heat, a foam of fire. CANTO IV. A
Thunderclap awakens Dante from his sleep, during which he has been
carried across Acheron. He finds himself upon the margin of the pit
of Hell, so dark and deep that, gazing down, his sight cannot reach
the bottom. In the First Circle there are no lamentations, but only
sighs; for here are the sinless unbaptized, and with them those
that died before the coming of Christianity, of whom Virgil himself
is one. They suffer no torment, save that without hope they live
ever in desire. Hither had once descended a Mighty One, crowned
with victory, who led thence the shades of the patriarchs. And here
Dante and Virgil are met by the great poets of old, Homer, Horace,
Ovid, and Lucan, who salute Virgil with the cry, " Honour the most
high poet!" and who admit Dante as sixth of their band. With them
he passes into a noble castle, wherein is a great company of the
illustrious dead. Here are the founders of the Roman name, from the
days of Troy downward: Electra, Hector, Eneas, Latinus, Lavinia,
the elder Brutus, Caesar, and others; and apart from them stands
Saladin alone. Beyond are the philosophers, grouped round Aristo...
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