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"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" These words in sombre color I beheld Written upon the summit of a gate.
"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" These words in sombre color I beheld Written upon the summit of a gate.
Approximate author period: c. 1293 AD · medieval
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- Dante
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- Approximate author period: c. 1293 AD · medieval
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote936 · printed citation: DANTE: Inferno, Longfellow's Trans., Canto iii., Line 9.
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