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The boiling pitch in Malebolge waslike that in the Venetian arsenal:--the mound on which he travelledalong the banks of Phlegethon was like that between Ghent and Bruges, but not so large:--the cavities where the Simoniacal prelates areconfined resemble the Fonts in the Church of John at Florence. Every reader of Dante will recall many other illustrations of thisdescription, which add to the appearance of sincerity and earnestnessfrom which the narrative derives so much of its interest. Many of... his comparisons, again, are intended to give an exact idea ofhis feelings under particular circumstances. The delicate shades ofgrief, of fear, of anger, are rarely discriminated with sufficientaccuracy in the language of the most refined nations. A rude dialectnever abounds in nice distinctions of this kind. Dante therefore employsthe most accurate and infinitely the most poetical mode of markingthe precise state of his mind. Every person who has experienced thebewildering effect of sudden bad tidings, --the stupefaction, --the vaguedoubt of the truth of our own perceptions which they produce, --willunderstand the following simile:--"I was as he is who dreameth his ownharm, --who, dreaming, wishes that it may be all a dream, so that hedesires that which is as though it were not.
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