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The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow

Languages diverse, horrible dialects,†
Canto 1.1-11 *

A death by violence, and painful wounds, Are to our neighbour given; and in his substance Ruin, and arson, and injurious levies; Whence homicides, and he who smites unjustly, Marauders, and freebooters, the first round Tormenteth all in companies diverse.†
Canto 1.1-11

Of naked souls beheld I many herds, Who all were weeping very miserably, And over them seemed set a law diverse.†
Canto 1.12-22

But may those Ladies help this verse of mine, Who helped Amphion in enclosing Thebes, That from the fact the word be not diverse.†
Canto 1.23-34

How that may be wouldst thou have power to think, Collected in thyself, imagine Zion Together with this mount on earth to stand, So that they both one sole horizon have, And hemispheres diverse; whereby the road Which Phaeton, alas! knew not to drive, Thou'lt see how of necessity must pass This on one side, when that upon the other, If thine intelligence right clearly heed."†
Canto 2.1-11

Nearer approached we, and were in such place, That there, where first appeared to me a rift Like to a crevice that disparts a wall, I saw a portal, and three stairs beneath, Diverse in colour, to go up to it, And a gate-keeper, who yet spake no word.†
Canto 2.1-11

Then wider than at first mine eyes I opened; I looked before me, and saw shades with mantles Not from the colour of the stone diverse.†
Canto 2.12-22

Then when from us so separated were Those shades, that they no longer could be seen, Within me a new thought did entrance find, Whence others many and diverse were born; And so I lapsed from one into another, That in a reverie mine eyes I closed, And meditation into dream transmuted.†
Canto 2.12-22

To mortal men by passages diverse Uprises the world's lamp; but by that one Which circles four uniteth with three crosses, With better course and with a better star Conjoined it issues, and the mundane wax Tempers and stamps more after its own fashion.†
Canto 3.1-11

In the order that I speak of are inclined All natures, by their destinies diverse, More or less near unto their origin; Hence they move onward unto ports diverse O'er the great sea of being; and each one With instinct given it which bears it on.†
Canto 3.1-11

Hence they move onward unto ports diverse†
Canto 3.1-11

And I: "What seems to us up here diverse, Is caused, I think, by bodies rare and dense."†
Canto 3.1-11

Virtues diverse must be perforce the fruits Of formal principles; and these, save one, Of course would by thy reasoning be destroyed.†
Canto 3.1-11

The following heaven, that has so many eyes, Divides this being by essences diverse, Distinguished from it, and by it contained.†
Canto 3.1-11

And even as the soul within your dust Through members different and accommodated To faculties diverse expands itself, So likewise this Intelligence diffuses Its virtue multiplied among the stars.†
Canto 3.1-11

Virtue diverse doth a diverse alloyage Make with the precious body that it quickens, In which, as life in you, it is combined.†
Canto 3.1-11

Virtue diverse doth a diverse alloyage Make with the precious body that it quickens, In which, as life in you, it is combined.†
Canto 3.1-11

Voices diverse make up sweet melodies; So in this life of ours the seats diverse Render sweet harmony among these spheres; And in the compass of this present pearl Shineth the sheen of Romeo, of whom The grand and beauteous work was ill rewarded.†
Canto 3.1-11

So in this life of ours the seats diverse†
Canto 3.1-11

From one act therefore issued things diverse; To God and to the Jews one death was pleasing; Earth trembled at it and the Heaven was opened.†
Canto 3.1-11

And can they be so, if below they live not Diversely unto offices diverse?†
Canto 3.1-11

And can they be so, if below they live not Diversely unto offices diverse?†
Canto 3.1-11

So came he with deductions to this point; Then he concluded: "Therefore it behoves The roots of your effects to be diverse.†
Canto 3.1-11

But for new pasturage his flock has grown So greedy, that it is impossible They be not scattered over fields diverse; And in proportion as his sheep remote And vagabond go farther off from him, More void of milk return they to the fold.†
Canto 3.1-11

Neither their wax, nor that which tempers it, Remains immutable, and hence beneath The ideal signet more and less shines through; Therefore it happens, that the selfsame tree After its kind bears worse and better fruit, And ye are born with characters diverse.†
Canto 3.12-22

But among mortals will and argument, For reason that to you is manifest, Diversely feathered in their pinions are.†
Canto 3.12-22

Hence, inasmuch as on the act conceptive The affection followeth, of love the sweetness Therein diversely fervid is or tepid.†
Canto 3.23-33

The King, by means of whom this realm reposes In so great love and in so great delight That no will ventureth to ask for more, In his own joyous aspect every mind Creating, at his pleasure dowers with grace Diversely; and let here the effect suffice.†
Canto 3.23-33

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(diverse)
varied or (having differences amongst things of the same kind) -- especially with regard to ideas or members of a population group