This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...graceful reply in his native tongue; and as he wholly disappeared within the fire, the Pilgrims stood opposite the eighth staircase. 2 As when he vibrates forth his earliest rays, In regions where his Maker shed His blood, (The Ebro falling under lofty Libra, And waters in the Ganges burnt with noon, ) So stood the Sun ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...graceful reply in his native tongue; and as he wholly disappeared within the fire, the Pilgrims stood opposite the eighth staircase. 2 As when he vibrates forth his earliest rays, In regions where his Maker shed His blood, (The Ebro falling under lofty Libra, And waters in the Ganges burnt with noon, ) So stood the Sun: 2 hence was the day departing, When the glad Angel of God appeared to us. Outside the flame he stood upon the verge, And chanted forth, 'Beati mundo corde In voice by far more living than our own. Then: 'No one farther goes, souls sanctified, 1 The B. Virgin's words as an example of Chastity, 'I know not a man.' 1 'When the Sun is rising at Jerusalem, it is setting on the Mountain of Purgatory; it is midnight in Spain, with Libra in the meridian, and noon in India.' 178 Dante shrinks from the Fire. If first the fire bite not; within it enter, And be not deaf unto the song beyond.' xxVIi. I-12. We must conclude that nowhere round this whole Terrace is there any break in the flame-wreath; wherefore no penitent Shade but must needs pass through it, whether tainted or not with the special sin chastised by sojourning within it. The reason may perhaps be that S. Paul apparently includes each and every soul that has built upon the One Foundation 'wood, hay, stubble, ' in the class saved 'so as by fire.'1 And Dante himself elsewhere uses 'the fire, ' 'the temporal fire, ' as terms equivalent to 'Purga1017.' When we were close beside him thus he said; Wherefore e'en such became I, when I heard him, As he is who is put into the grave. Upon my clasped hands I straightened me, Scanning the fire and vividly recalling The human bodies I had once seen burned. Xxvii. 13-18. Yes, and in that awful conflict he must have called up with more agonizing intensity a m...
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