Crossword-Solution: ETERNO 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dominic against that of him who made Virgil wonder to gaze upon him,—“disteso, tanto vilmente, nell’ eterno esilio;” or of him whom Dante stood beside, “come ’l frate che confessa lo perfido assassin?” {9} Shakespeare and Alighieri knew men better than most of us, I presume! They were both in the midst of the main struggle between the temporal and spiritual powers.

Let me cite as an example the opening of Canto III.:-- "Per me si va nella eitti dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente." Here are three lines which, in their matchless simplicity and grandeur, might well excite despair in the breast of any translator.

The idea of the twin gates, leading to the Paradise and the Hell of lovers, may have been taken from the description of the gates of dreams in the Odyssey and the Aeneid; but the iteration of “Through me men go” far more directly suggests the legend on Dante’s gate of Hell:— Per me si va nella citta dolente, Per me si va nell’ eterno dolore; Per me si va tra la perduta gente.

They seem to demand a future life, even, a state of rewards and punishments from the Maker of the world, the _Ortolano Eterno_,[1] the Potter of the East, the Watchmaker of the West.

The Earth which has that changing moon and the thing called the sea.' 'Of course, of course,' answered the Padre Eterno quickly, 'I said Sirius by a slip of the tongue.