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“Great grief seized on my heart when this I heard, because some people of much worthiness I knew, who in that Limbo were suspended. ‘Tell me, my Master, tell me, thou my Lord,’ Began I, with desire of being certain of that Faith which o’ercometh every error, ‘Came any one by his own merit hence, or by another’s, who was blessed thereafter?’ ”
“The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine; whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. When they arrive before the precipice, there are the shrieks, the plaints, and the laments, there they blaspheme the puissance divine.”
“New torments I behold, and new tormented around me, whichsoever way I move, and whichsoever way I turn, and gaze. In the third circle am I of the rain eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy; its law and quality are never new.”
“ ’Clearly enotugh their voices bark it forth, whene'er they reach the two points of the circle, where sunders them the opposite defect. Clerks those were no hairy covering have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals, in whom doth avarice practice its excess.’ "
“...saw people mud-besprent in that lagoon, all of them naked and with angry look. They smote each other not alone with hands, but with the head and with the breast and feet, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth.”
“ ‘O banished out of Heaven, people despised!’ Thus he began upon the horrid threshold; ‘Whence is this arrogance within you couched?…’ "
"But fix thine eyes below; for drouth near the river of blood, within which boiling is whoe'er by violence doth injure others."
“There with his tokens and with ornate words did he deceive Hypsipyle...”
“And I was shivering in the eternal shade...”
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