57 ([return])
[ Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, p. 84.]
58 ([return])
[ See my Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Vol. I. p. 123.]
59 ([return])
[ This work comes at the end of the eighteenth-century period, as Pope's translation of Homer comes at the beginning.
"These are the questions which they will
Urge equally; and therefore I the first
Of that will treat which hath the more of gall.
Of seraphim he who is most enskied,
Moses, and Samuel, and either John,
Choose which thou wilt, nor even Mary's self,
Have not in any other heaven their seats,
Than have those spirits which so late thou saw'st;
Nor more or fewer years exist; but all
Make the first circle beauteous, diversely
Partaking of sweet life, as more or less
Afflation of eternal bliss pervades them.">[
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[
"Quand' ebbe detto cio, eon gli occhi torti
Riprese il teschio misero coi denti,
Che furo all' osso, come d'un can, forti."
Inferno, XXXIII. 76.]