Identifier: visio00dant (find matches)
Title: The vision;
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844, tr
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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dAnother throng!: this savage wilderness. Firth with so fell his pride, that he let dropThe instrument of torture at his feet,And to the rest exclaimd : u VP no power To strike him. Then to me my guide : O thi n!Who on the bridge among the crags dost sitLow crouching, safely now to me return. di; ~£ I rose, and towards liirn moved with speed; theMeantime all forward drew: me terror seized,Lest they should break the compact they had made.Thus issuing from Caprona,2 once I sawThr infantry, dreading lest his covenant ::;.:.:. The foe should break; so close he hemmd them 1 The fiesk.) In enndem frnmen comrant: rnrsuniqiit:assnrgentes, ac denuo recidentes, tamdrn. ibidem crueiantnf,donee in moreria earaium excocti, &c. jilberici Visio. 11 2 From Caprona.) The surrender of the easile of Capronato the combined forces of Florence and Lucca, on condition\hat the garrison should march cnt in safety, to which eirenDante was a witness, took place in 1290. See G VillainHist., lib vft. c. 136.
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vV A ( 05-117. HELL, Canto XXI. 157 I to ray leaders side adhered, mine eyesWith fiVd and motionless observance bentOn their unkindly visage. They their hooksProtruding, one the other thus bespake: Wilt thou I touch him on the hip? To whomWas answerd: Even so ; nor miss thy aim. But he, who was in conference with my guide,Turnd rapid round ; and thus the demon spake : Stay, stay thee, ^carmiglione ! Then to usHe added: Farther footing to your stepThis rock affords not, shiverd to the baseOf the sixth arch. But would ye still proceed,Up by this cavern go: not distant far,Another rock will yield you passage safe.Yesterday,1 later by five hours than now,Twelve hundred threescore years and six had filldThe circuit of their course, since here the wayWas broken. Thitherward I straight dispatchCertain of these my scouts, who shall espyIf any on the surface bask. With themGo ye: for ye shall find them nothing fell.Come, Alichino, forth, with that he cried, And Calcabrina, and Cagnazzo2 thou !

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