. The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. b FAMOUS PAINTINGS FROM THE PARIS SALON. DEATH OF FKANCESCA DA RIMINI AND OFPAOLO MALAtESTA Photogravure from the original painting hv Alexandre Cabanel exbthited in the Paris Salon of HELL 21 We read no more. While thus one spirit spake,The other waild so sorely, that heart-struckI, through compassion fainting, seemd not farFrom death, and like a corse fell to the ground. CANTO VI Argument.—On his recovery, the Poet finds himself in the third circle,where the gluttonous are punished. Their torment is, to lie in themire, under a contimial and heav
. The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. b FAMOUS PAINTINGS FROM THE PARIS SALON. DEATH OF FKANCESCA DA RIMINI AND OFPAOLO MALAtESTA Photogravure from the original painting hv Alexandre Cabanel exbthited in the Paris Salon of HELL 21 We read no more. While thus one spirit spake,The other waild so sorely, that heart-struckI, through compassion fainting, seemd not farFrom death, and like a corse fell to the ground. CANTO VI Argument.—On his recovery, the Poet finds himself in the third circle,where the gluttonous are punished. Their torment is, to lie in themire, under a contimial and heavy storm of hail, snow, and dis-colored water; Cerberus meanwhile barking over them with histhreefold throat, and rending them piecemeal. One of these, whoon earth was named Ciacco, foretells the divisions with which Flor-ence is about to be distracted. Dante proposes a question to hisguide, who solves it; and they proceed toward the fourth circle. MY sense reviving, that erewhile had droopdWith pity for the kindred shades, whence griefOercame me wholly, straight around I seeNew torments, new tormented souls, which waySoeer I move, or turn, or bend my the third circle I arrive, of showersCeaseless, accursed, heavy
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