Dante's Divine Comedy

“Pray thee instantly - oh, spurn not my desire - by means of thy own prayers to chase away all clouds of his mortality”

“Pray thee instantly - oh, spurn not my desire - by means of thy own prayers to chase away all clouds of his mortality”

“Since he it is who did the palm convey to Mary, when the Son of God most high vouchsafed to assume the burden of our clay”

“Since he it is who did the palm convey to Mary, when the Son of God most high vouchsafed to assume the burden of our clay”

“Angels on the wing I saw in thousands round it dance and play, each one in glory and function differing

“Angels on the wing I saw in thousands round it dance and play, each one in glory and function differing

“With act and voice of guide whose task is done, resumed: ‘We’ve left the largest body, and move now in the heaven composed of light alone”

“With act and voice of guide whose task is done, resumed: ‘We’ve left the largest body, and move now in the heaven composed of light alone”

“But now, as poet, I must needs give o’er pursuit that every artist knows is vain, when, having done his best, he can do no more”

“But now, as poet, I must needs give o’er pursuit that every artist knows is vain, when, having done his best, he can do no more”

“Thus, by enlightening grace and by their own desert their vision was uplifted so, that will in them is full and steadfast grown”

“Thus, by enlightening grace and by their own desert their vision was uplifted so, that will in them is full and steadfast grown”