Word: journey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...BroadwayHOMEWARD JOURNEY. - For tickets for your homeward journey, the Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. offers a delightful sea voyage to Norfolk, Baltimore, Washington, thence rail for the South and West, or all rail via Shenandoah Valley Route. Call on or address C. P. Gaither, 290 Washington street, Boston...
FOUND in College Library. Pennell's Journey to the Hebrides. The book appears to have been taken from some society library, as the front cover shows the remains of a book plate...
...this time in the Divine Comedy, said Professor Norton, Dante has travelled through the regions of Hell and Purgatory in a world of realities, where all was visible and tangible, but from this time on we are to follow him through a spiritual world, and to the journey we must bring greater imagination than has been necessary heretofore. Up to this time the experience of Dante in the world of the dead has been preternatural; from this time on it is supernatural. That there is much in this part of the Divine Comedy that will seem crude in conception...
...since only sinners can enter Hades, the Arcadians, none of whom have ever committed a sin, are debarred from companying the bridal party on the journey. Then it is suggested that, as stealing is a crime, each man should steal a kiss from each maid. This, Pluto points out, would admit the men to Hades, but the maids would still be debarred. Ceres overcomes the difficulty by suggesting that the maids take back their kisses, thereby receiving stolen goods, which of course is a sin. Exemplicus is now the only person left on earth; he declares that he will revenge...
...last scene of the poets' journey through Hell is the most horrible. After passing through the lowest circles, they come upon a frozen pool, in which incased in the ice are the traitors of various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...