Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . because they have none around them save souls lost like their is no brightening touch in the Inferno. The name of Christ is nevermentioned in its polluted air. The only angel who appears in it is not one ofthe radiant Sympathies, with fair golden heads and dazzling faces and wings androbes of tender green, of the Purgatory, not one of the living topazes or gold-en splendors of the Paradise ; but is stern, disdainful, silent, waving from
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . because they have none around them save souls lost like their is no brightening touch in the Inferno. The name of Christ is nevermentioned in its polluted air. The only angel who appears in it is not one ofthe radiant Sympathies, with fair golden heads and dazzling faces and wings androbes of tender green, of the Purgatory, not one of the living topazes or gold-en splendors of the Paradise ; but is stern, disdainful, silent, waving from be-fore his face all contact with the filthy gloom. His Lucifer is no flickering, gen-tlemanly, philosophic man of the world like Goethes Mephistopheles, nor likeMiltons Fallen Cherub, whose Form had not yet lostAll her original brightness, nor appearedLess than archangel ruined, or excessOf glory obscured ; but is a three-headed monster of loathly ugliness, with faces yellow with envy,crimson with rage, and black with ignorance ; not haughty, splendid, defiant, butfoul and loathly as sin itself. PETRARCH 25 PETRARCH By Alice King (1304-1374). IT was in the days of civil strife in Republic, like the fickle mistress that shewas, was stripping and turning out of doors herbest servants, and was petting and clothing withhonor her worst ones. Among those who, drivenby the decree of banishment, hurried out of thecitys southern gate were the parents of Fran-cesco Petrarch. They retired to the little town ofArezzo, and there he was born in 1304, soon af-ter their banishment. As she looked at her boy,his mother, Eletta, very likely mourned to thinkthat he would not be able in after life to boast ofbeing a native of fair Florence. She did notknow that in future ages Florence was to countit among her highest distinctions that this childwas of Florentine was hardly freed from his swaddling-clothes When his father, withthat restlessness peculiar to exiles, remov
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