Flaxman's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by John Flaxman

Author:John Flaxman [Flaxman, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486157009
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Terrible as the lightning he descended,

and snatched me upward even to the fire

Gate of Purgatory

Canto IX, lines 130–138

Then pushed the portals of the sacred door,

Exclaiming: “Enter; but I give you warning

That forth returns whoever looks behind.”

And when upon their hinges were turned round

The swivels of that consecrated gate,

Which are of metal, massive and sonorous,

Roared not so loud, nor so discordant seemed

Tarpeia, when was ta’en from it the good

Metellus, wherefore meagre it remained.

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