and came unto a place where one descends; thus Plutus with his clucking voice began; that noble Sage, then, who knew everything. beyond it with us, but with quicker steps; the Romans took, because of its great throng. thy citizens, whence shame accrues to me. ’Gainst God may force be used, by wittingly. which cannot then be sailed; — instead of which, as one a new one builds, one plugs the ribs. and more, whom love had from our life cut off. To make him out I therefore stayed my feet; and, having stopped with me, my gentle Leader, That scourged one thought that he could hide himself. Hence, since he so had wished it, I began: from human minds in that first world of ours. Soon as the wind toward us had bent their course. by means of wasps and hornets that were there. While we were speeding through the stagnant trench. one of the sinners there displayed his back. Tuscans or Lombards, I will have some come.

owned me when I was in the peaceful life. that I believe that they are greatly vexed. All's Well That Ends Well In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the... Henry IV: Part One In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Origin... Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Origina... Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translati... Gulliver’s Travels In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Origin... Pericles, Prince of Tyre In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the ... Paradise Lost In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Ve... Dante's Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose. of all self-trust, and as he sighed he said: “Who has forbidden me the homes of pain?”, “Though I get angry, be not thou dismayed,”. was kissed by such a lover, this one here.

provides itself a witness in their midst. Red eyes he hath, a dark and greasy beard. through that day and the next we all kept mute. I closed mine ears. that I might see all details of the trench. perchance withdraws thee from my memory so, But tell me who thou art, that in so painful, that none, though greater, so repulsive is.”, And he to me: “Thy town, which is so full. My Leader kept his head bowed down awhile; then said: “Wrongly did he report the thing, who yonder grapples sinners with his hook!”, The friar then: “Among the many vices given.

lest foolish be my coming; thou art wise, and canst much better judge than I can talk.”. had felt the love, whereby, as some believe. what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear; the arms he plied he moveth now no more.”, I ’d gladly have these eyes of mine enjoy, Then he replied: “Antaeus thou ’lt behold. its mosques already in that valley there.

Two men are just, but are not heeded there; the three sparks that have set men’s hearts on fire. And one of them, who felt aggrieved, perhaps, at being named so darkly, smote the speaker. and said: “Stand off, while I am clutching him!”.

who, vexed and baffled thus, flies up again. “if from this wilderness thou wouldst escape; for this wild beast, on whose account thou criest. Nature both in herself and in her follower. Fill out your e-mail address and name to receive the monthly HolyBooks.com newsletter! And even greater honor still they did me. Longfellow’s widely diffused version, which is an almost painfully accurate translation of the then accepted Italian text, at once attained great popularity not only in America Edition: current; Page: [[viii]] but abroad, a popularity largely due to the poetical fame of its author, to its literal loyalty to every word of the original, for which it could so easily be made to serve as a ‘pony,’ and to the wealth and excellence of its accompanying notes.

I, knowing who ye are, and that one’s sin, if that, wherewith I speak, be not dried up.”. who with such daring entered this domain. I was deprived; and still the way offends me. and Caesar armed, with shining falcon eyes. You may accept or manage cookie usage at any time. and of the people who were burned therein. and walking with slow steps returned to me. calls him again, that death may be delayed. both looking at and listening to the sick, who could not raise their bodies. was at their feet sucked up by loathsome worms. and grant the favor of some further talk. And fraud, whereby all consciences are bitten. before the kindred couple’s piteous case, Coarse hail, and snow, and dirty-colored water. “I fast not from a previous sight of him.”. or e’er thou trust me to the arduous course. and those that with such keen tongues meet each other. as soon as they had heard the cruel words. That is the lowest and the darkest place. He is much further on, whom thou wouldst see, and bound he is, and shaped like this one, save, that more ferocious in his looks he seems.”, There never was an earthquake strong enough. and wit, deprived the Colchians of their ram. upon the ground he stretched it to depart. declines in power, according to her judgment. chastised; no torment, saving thine own rage, were for thy furious pride a fitting pain.”. We ’ll drag them with us here, and then our bodies, each on the thorn-tree of its hostile shade.”.

along with them, intent on their sad plaint; but, owing to the weight, that weary folk. “therefore unburden thee of all thy sadness, if it again should chance that Fortune find thee. who gave thee death when in the world above? is first received, it transfixed one of them.

in wrath, he took the pointed thunderbolt.

And I, whose head was girt about with horror, said: “Teacher, what is this I hear? because of which I said: “These torments, Teacher, or less become, or burn the same as now.”. I entered on the wild and arduous course. although he sees, delays not his departure; with wings outspread, and light upon his feet! of each were ready to exchange their matter. And one I saw, who like a lute were shaped. error in me took flight, and fear increased; thus o’er the margin which surrounds the well, those frightful Giants, whom, when from the sky. On the English page the reader will see that in the vast majority of cases I have found it possible to have three lines of blank verse match the three lines of each opposite terzina without disloyalty to the interests of either. what I became, of both of these deprived. and lead thee hence through an eternal place, where thou shalt hear the shrieks of hopelessness. which, hanging like a lantern from its hand. and rent each other piecemeal with their teeth. About strange punishments must I make verses, and furnish matter for the twentieth song. Then each and all of them drew on together. In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. turn back, to cause their suffering to increase; because the first ones form a solid block. to hide him better, caused a shouting there. smoked hard, and each smoke with the other mingled. seizes her child and flees, and doth not stop. since he could not so trace it with his eyes.

and when the wings were opened wide enough, he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then.

and, when he comes to bite it, is appeased, and fight; even such became those filthy faces, of demon Cerberus, who, thundering, stuns. they likewise ’neath the boiling pitch withdrew. Soon as my Leader and I were in the boat, the ancient prow goes on its way, and cuts. A Gallehault the book, and he who wrote it!

Goodness Divine, and loose the tangled knot.”, in one part only, that Nature takes her course.

he warned me to keep still, and bow before him. And then its hinder feet, together twisted. that he could make no use of them at all. which forms the other surface of Judecca.

And I, whose heart was well nigh broken, said: “Now, Teacher, show me who these people are, and tell me whether all these tonsured ones. so, next, from that one was another born. and with his hook so seized him by the arm. and whom up in the Latin land I ’ve seen. so may they not be void of lasting favor, I swear to thee, that through that coarse, dark air, I saw a shape, which would have chilled with wonder. from Dis the highest circle’s mighty prey. I mean that when an ill-born soul appears.

I, therefore, feel that neither terza rima, nor, indeed, any rhymed translation in metrical forms still more alien in poetical tone to that in which the Divine Comedy was written, can prove to be at best other than unnatural and unsympathetic, though at times brilliant, tours de force.

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lest it should run when virtue guides it not; that, if a kindly star, or aught that’s better.

when at the stars he gazed, or at the sea. “Look at the one who comes with sword in hand.

Out of their eyes their woe was bursting forth; first here, then there, they helped them with their hands. that he might thus bring near to us his words. While I was still the shape of bones and flesh. We reached a noble Castle’s foot, seven times. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

One and the selfsame tongue first wounded me, so that it colored both my cheeks, and then. wherein the boiled were crying out aloud. their juncture left no mark that could be seen. They wheeled, and moved along the left bank then; but not till each, as signal toward their leader. ed. A. J. Cornell Publications (October 6, 2011). Lethe thou ’lt see, but there, outside this cave, whither souls go to wash themselves, when once, their sin, repented of, has been removed.”. that unto you the last place is assigned, that I may somewhat vent the pain that fills, my heart, before the tears freeze up again.”.