...number of short memoirs in continuation of Johnson's Lives of the Poets. THE ENTRANCE TO THE INFERNO. " Through me you pass into the city of woe : Through...people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd ; To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. Before me things...

...yawning pit, which is entered by a single door. Above the entrance are written the ominous words : " 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." The Inferno is painted by the poet as a vast cone...

...inscription over the entrance produces a sensation of awe and terror which no translation can convey : " Through me you pass into the city of woe ; Through...and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here." — Hell, iii. I. On the other hand, the poet introduces us into Purgatory with words of gentle...

...acknowledge, whether in the joy of the blessed, or in the impotent, despairing rage of the damned : l " Justice, the founder of my fabric, moved ; To rear...Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love." ' — Hell, iii. 4. Within its portals are eternal darkness, fiery heat and icy cold : 1 Plato expresses...

...opposite shore ; which as soon as Dante reaches, he is seized with terror, and falls into a trance. " THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe : Through...power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love i. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon2,...

...eternally connected. " ' Through me ye pass into the city of woe. Through me ye pass into eternal pain. Justice the founder of my fabric moved To rear me...none save things Eternal, and eternal, I endure.' " Wherever the sin shall be there shall be connected with it the atmosphere of the inferno, which is...

...midst of them, began to deliver the third canto of the " Inferno " in the most dramatic manner : — " Through me you pass into the city of woe; Through...eternal pain; Through me among the people lost for aye." As she went on every one became breathless with excitement. When she reached the words, — "Here sighs,...

...adoration, inasmuch as He is the eternal Origin of the eternal Deity of the Son. 1 "Justii To n ustice the Founder of my fabric moved, To rear me was the...power divine, Supremest wisdom and primeval love. All hope abandon, ye who enter here." DANTE, Inferno, canto iii (Gary). Wherefore, my beloved, as ye...

...lord." So spake I ; and when he had onward mov'd, 140 I enter'd on the deep and woody way. CANTO in. " THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe : Through me you pass into eternal pain : Through mo among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd : To rear me was the task...

...he had onward mov'd, 140 I enter'd on the deep and woody way. CANTO III. " THROUGH me you pass iuto the city of woe ; Through me you pass into eternal...people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd : To rear me was the task of power divine, 5 Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things...