...straightaway looked, beheld a flag, Which, whirling, ran round so rapidly That it no pause obtained ; and following came Such a long train of Spirits, I should ne'er Have thought that Death so many had despoiled. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him who, to base fear Yielding,...

...385. 3 A flag-] All the grisly legions that troop Under the sooty flag of Acheron. Milton, Comus 602 That it no pause obtain'd : and following came Such...death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognised, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear l Yielding, abjured his high estate....

...both. Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by." And I, who straightway look'd, beheld a flag, Which whirling ran around so rapidly, That it no pause...death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear * 1 " Who to base fear some one of Dante's...

...Inferno " Dante says : Vidi e conobbi la ombra di colui, Che fece per viltate il gran rifiuto . . . " I saw, and knew the shade of him who, to base fear Yielding, abjured his high estate " (Carey) — verses which are said to have been prompted by Celestine V.'s...

...away from the grey memorials of the dead, a modern Dante might also have completed his picture thus: ' Such a long train of spirits I should ne'er Have thought that death so many had despoiled.' Could the curtain of the future have been lifted, there would have appeared, at that grim...

...both. Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by." And I, who straightway look'd, beheld a flag, Which whirling ran around so rapidly, That it no pause...death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear* •The correct translation is " hor-...

...both. Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by?'.-> And I, who straightway look'd, beheld a flag, Which whirling ran around so rapidly, That it no pause...death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear" •The correct translation is " hor-...

...spirits, I should ne'er Have thought that death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear* Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe Of those ill spirits both...

...spirits, I should ne'er Have thought that death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear* •The correct translation is " hor- order, and printed at Milan in 17o1, tor," not " error." — Editor's...

...spirits, I should ne'er Have thought that death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recognized, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear* •The correct translation is " hor- order, and printed at Milan in 1701, ror," not " error." — Editor's...