...-reaches, he is seized with terror, and falls into a trance. " THROUGH me you pass into the city of wo : Through me you pass into eternal pain : Through me among the people lost for ay e. Justice the founder of my fabric moved : To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom,...

...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...eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here." Such characters in colour dim I mark'd 10 Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd : Whereat I thus : "...

...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...eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here." Such characters in colour dim I mark'd 10 Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd : Whereat I thus : "...

...hell were approached, and the inscription over them appeared. Behold the dismal word-painting : — " Through me you pass into the city of woe ; Through me you pass into eternal pain ; Through me amoug the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved ; To rear me was the task of...

...can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all." — MILTON. See ii. 570-628. Cf. Dante :— " Through me you pass into the city of woe : Through...eternal pain : Through me among the people lost for aye. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who...

...this hope that gives the awful solemnity to the shutting of the Door of which we are writing : — ' "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. " Such characters in colour dim I marked Over a portal's lofty...

...there involuntarily rises to our lips Dante's awful inscription over the gateway of Avernus : — " Through me you pass into the city of Woe ; Through...eternal pain ; Through me among the people lost for aye. To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love ; Before me things create...

...retrieving his errors and amending his ways. Over Hell gate an awful inscription is placed (Hell, 3) : " Through me you pass into the city of woe ; Through me you pass eternal woes to prove; Through me among the blasted race you go. 'Twas Justice did my most high Author...

...retrieving his errors and amending his ways. Over HeB gate an awful inscription is placed (Hell, 3): "Through me you pass into the city of woe; Through me you pass eternal woes to pro«; Through me among the blasted race you go. 'Twas Justice did my most high Author...

...Dante saw written in dingy colors over the gate of hell : — " Justice incited my sublime Creator : To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom and primeval love." l 1 Inferno, iii. This same eternal law of retribution, which allows no hope to the sinful while they...