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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them;. No hope doth comfort them for evermore,. Not of repose, but even of lesser pain. Just as their appetites for lust drove these sinners to abandon reason and stray in myriad directions, so does their punishment subject them to spontaneous, haphazard buffeting by the winds of Inferno. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. Full many a time our eyes together drew. That reading, and drove the colour from our faces;. But one point only was it that o'ercame us. Again, love is characterized negatively, as a force that "o'ercame," and, in the previous tercina, "enthral[led]." Carnal love dominates you; intellectual love is always the lover's to control. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. Dost thou not hear the pity of his plaint? Dost thou not see the death that combats him. Beside that flood, where ocean has no vaunt? The implication here is that Lucia, "foe of all that cruel is," is chiding Beatrice for being lax (or cruel! Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. Dante's appeals as divinely ordained. So came they from the band where Dido is,. Approaching us athwart the air malign,. So strong was the affectionate appeal. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. And more of honour still, much more, they did me,. In that they made me one of their own band;. So that the sixth was I, 'mid so much wit. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. And to a place I come where nothing shines. At the end of each canticle, Dante will behold (or re-behold) the stars shining in the sky. Given that Limbo is its own special sub-realm of Inferno, it seems fitting that his passage through it terminate with a similar reference. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. No fame of them the world permits to be;. Misericord and Justice both disdain them. Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.". Virgil's treatment of the souls in limbo, who in death are made to blindly chase banners just as they did in life, is noteworthy for several reasons. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. This we passed over even as firm ground;. Through portals seven I entered with these Sages;. We came into a meadow of fresh verdure. Interesting that Limbo's most honored inhabitants dwell in a microcosm of Purgatory - a raised structure with seven walls encircling an inner garden. Site by Alex Hugon.
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Join a community of engaged scholars. Sign in with Twitter. Love, love, love. Love has conducted us unto one death;. Caina waiteth him who quenched our life! These words were borne along from them to us. Site by Alex Hugon.
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