The Inferno, Canto 7, lines 65-67: "Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon, Or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls Might purchase rest for one."

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Gustave Dore

1832-1883

FrenchRomanticpainter, sculptor, illustrator and printmaker

The Inferno, Canto 7, lines 65-67: "Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon, Or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls Might purchase rest for one."


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Extract from Dante's The Divine Comedy, "Hell", Canto 7, lines 53-67. Translation by The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A.

"Vain thought conceiv'st thou. That ignoble life,
Which made them vile before, now makes them dark,
And to all knowledge indiscernible.
Forever they shall meet in this rude shock:
These from the tomb with clenched grasp shall rise,
Those with close-shaven locks. That ill they gave,
And ill they kept, hath of the beauteous world
Depriv'd, and set them at this strife, which needs
No labour'd phrase of mine to set if off.
Now may'st thou see, my son! how brief, how vain,
The goods committed into fortune's hands,
For which the human race keep such a coil!
Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon,
Or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls
Might purchase rest for one."
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