DANTE'S

DIVINE COMEDY.

THE PARADISE.

"Lassù fia caro il rivederci, amico

Tosto si vieta quì." Se ciò scrivesti Pur nell' altrui parole, e mi facesti Legger, chinando quel volto pudico, (Che tal non arricchì, tal fa mendico,) Se mai così pietosa mi parvesti, Or quegli studj non ti sian molesti, Ond' io rimembro il mio piacer antico. Quinci da bella Speme fien lattati

I pensier miei, mercè la gran virtute De' primi affetti, e quasi concreati,

Che c' addolciavan la mutua salute Ne' giorni, d' ogn' ambascia allontanati, Della puerizia, e della gioventute.

DIVINE COMEDY.

THE PARADISE:

TRANSLATED IN THE ORIGINAL TERNARY RHYME

BY

C. B. CAYLEY, B.A.

"Fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donec
in Te requiescat."- Conf. S. AUGUSTINI.

"Jura Monarchiæ cecini."-DANTIS Epitaphium.

"Let us not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments."-SHAKESPEARE'S Sonnets.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

LONDON: 1

A. and G. A. SPOTTISWOODE,

New-street-Square.

CONTENTS.

CANTO I

ARGUMENT of the Paradise.-Invocation. - Morning in the Ter-
restrial Paradise.-Beatris, fastening her Eyes upon the rising
Sun, the Poet imitates for a short Time her Action, then turns
his Face towards Hers, whereon gazing steadfastly, he finds
himself translated with her to the Circle of Fire.-His Diffi-
culties respecting the Transit are resolved by Beatris, declaring
the Tendencies which determine all created and material Sub-
stances to their several Spheres

CANTO II.

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Invitation to Special Readers.- Ascent of Beatris and Dante to
the First Sphere, where they enter marvellously the Substance of
the Moon, or Planet of MUTABILITY, on whose Dark and Bright
Patches Beatris discourses, referring them not to Density and
Rareness, but to Formal Principles, like the Differing of one
Star from another in Glory

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