...the necessary attributes of God. In the famous inscription on the gates of his Inferno Dante reads : To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom and primeval love. CHAPTER XIX THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Marriage of the Lamb (Apoc. xix, 7), as it will be inaugurated...

...were Eternal things; eternal I remain: Despair forever, ye who enter here. CAYLEY, 1851 .I h rough me you pass into the city of woe; Through me you pass eternal woe to prove; Through me among the blasted race you go. 'Twas justice did my most high Author...

...through the earth the two poets come to the Vestibule of Hell. On the gate appears this inscription : "Through me you pass into the city of woe Through...and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here." It may be said in passing that in these nine lines Dante attains an effect for which Milton,...

...and I endure for Evermore. All hope abandon ye who enter at this Door." — Translation by Musgrave. "Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through...into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost you go. Justice my ancient Builder did constrain: By Power divine my city's walls arose, By Highest...

...Circle that Beatrice summoned him to go to Dante's aid. The inscription is both terrible and terrifying: Through me you pass into the city of woe; Through...and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. At sight of these words, Dante trembles, but Virgil draws him on, and they have no sooner entered...

...reaches, he is seized with terror, and falls into a trance. " THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe: v Through me you pass into eternal pain : Through me...task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love.1 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal,2 and eternal I endure. ^11 hope abandon,...

...following lines, allegorically overscribed within the arch of the outgoings of the womb of human life : ' Through me you pass into the city of Woe, Through...pain ; Through me, among the people lost for aye. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.' He dropped the fatal volume from his hand ; he dropped his fated...

...vision the Cavern leading down into Hell with the appalling words inscribed over the entrance :— " Through me you pass into the City of Woe ; Through...eternal I endure : All hope abandon, ye who enter here." The Theology and the Eschatology of the passage must be taken as subject to serious criticism,...

...description of a prison at the close of the eighteenth century, over which might have been written : 'Through me you pass into the city of woe ; Through me you pass into eternal pain ; Through me among a people lost for aye.' 1 To the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, l7th May,...

...Paradise hold our wrapt attention at the close. Over the door of the former is found this inscription: "Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through...eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye" All hope abandon ye who enter here.9 And upon entering he hears: " sighs with lamentations and loud...