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Revelation 6: 8). Paradise misplaced Him the Almighty strength / Hurled headlong flaming from the airy sky (I. forty four, 45). So numberless have been these undesirable Angels obvious, / soaring on wing, lower than the cope of Hell (I. 344, 345). With head, arms, wings, or toes, pursues his means, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies (II. 949, 950). Then devil first knew soreness, / And writhed him from side to side (VI. 327, 328). Hell ultimately, / Yawning, got them complete (VI. 874, 875). And God stated: enable the waters generate / Reptile with spawn ample, dwelling soul; / And enable bird fly above the earth (VII. 387-389). This stated, they either betook them a number of methods (X. 610). Fables of l. a. Fontaine THE WOLF became SHEPHERD THE HARE AND THE FROGS AN ANIMAL within the MOON THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN Idylls of the King—Enid Idylls of the King—Vivien Idylls of the King—Elaine Idylls of the King—Guinevere The Divine Comedy CHARON AND THE RIVER ACHERON And lo! in the direction of us coming in a ship / An outdated guy, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: “Woe unto you, ye souls wicked! ” (Inf. III, 82—84). PAOLO AND FRANCESCA “O Poet, willingly / converse may I to these , who pass jointly, / and appear upon the wind to be so mild” (Inf. V, 73—75). THE STYX—PHILIPPO ARGENTI Then stretched he either his fingers unto the boat; / Whereat my cautious grasp thrust him again (Inf. VIII, forty, 41). BRUNETTO LATINI “Are you right here, Ser Brunetto? ”(Inf. XV, 30). THE DESCENT at the MONSTER Onward he goeth, swimming slowly, slowly; / Wheels and descends (Inf. XVII, one hundred fifteen, 116). BERTRAM DE BORN by way of the hair it held the pinnacle dissevered, / Hung from the hand in model of a lantern, / And that upon us gazed and acknowledged: “O me! ” (Inf. XXVIII, 121-123). THE GIANTS—NIMROD “Soul idiotic, / maintain to thy horn, and vent thyself with that, / while wrath or different ardour touches thee” (Inf. XXXI, 70—72). ANTAEUS—DESCENT TO THE final CIRCLE yet evenly within the abyss, which swallows up / Judas with Lucifer, he placed us down (Inf. XXXI, 142, 143). THE EAGLE negative because the lightning he descended, / And snatched me upward even to the hearth (Purg. IX, 29, 30). THE GLUTTONS And shadows, that seemed issues doubly lifeless, / From out the sepulchres in their eyes betrayed / ask yourself at me, acutely aware that i used to be residing (Purg. XXIV, 4-6). THE EMPYREAN In style then as of a snow-white rose / Displayed itself to me the saintly host (Par. XXXI, 1, 2). London: A Pilgrimage contained in the DOCKS WENTWORTH road, WHITECHAPEL NEWGATE—EXERCISE backyard WAREHOUSING within the urban OPIUM SMOKING—THE LASCAR’S ROOM IN “EDWIN DROOD” BILLINGSGATE—EARLY MORNING A urban THOROUGHFARE The Rime of the traditional Mariner and that i had performed a hellish factor, and it will paintings ‘em woe. approximately, approximately, in reel and rout, the death-fires danced at evening. I regarded upon the rotting sea, and drew my eyes away. I heard, and in my soul discerned, voices within the air. This seraph-band, each one waved his hand: it used to be a heavenly sight! less than the water it rumbled on, nonetheless louder and extra dread.