All 20 Uses
heed
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
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- "Slow it behoveth our descent to be,
So that the sense be first a little used
To the sad blast, and then we shall not heed it."†Canto 1.1-11 *heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested - "Philosophy," he said, "to him who heeds it,
Noteth, not only in one place alone,
After what manner Nature takes her course
From Intellect Divine, and from its art;
And if thy Physics carefully thou notest,
After not many pages shalt thou find,
That this your art as far as possible
Follows, as the disciple doth the master;
So that your art is, as it were, God's grandchild.†Canto 1.1-11heeds = pays close attention to; or does what is suggested - "Master," began I, "thou who overcomest
All things except the demons dire, that issued
Against us at the entrance of the gate,
Who is that mighty one who seems to heed not
The fire, and lieth lowering and disdainful,
So that the rain seems not to ripen him?"†Canto 1.12-22heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested - Then said he: "It is time now to abandon
The wood; take heed that thou come after me;
A way the margins make that are not burning,
And over them all vapours are extinguished."†Canto 1.12-22 - Old rumour in the world proclaims them blind;
A people avaricious, envious, proud;
Take heed that of their customs thou do cleanse thee.†Canto 1.12-22 - I seated me upon those monstrous shoulders;
I wished to say, and yet the voice came not
As I believed, "Take heed that thou embrace me."†Canto 1.12-22 - And he to me: "Worthy is thy entreaty
Of much applause, and therefore I accept it;
But take heed that thy tongue restrain itself.†Canto 1.23-34 - Take heed thou do not trample with thy feet
The heads of the tired, miserable brothers!†Canto 1.23-34 - Purgatorio: Canto IV
Whenever by delight or else by pain,
That seizes any faculty of ours,
Wholly to that the soul collects itself,
It seemeth that no other power it heeds;
And this against that error is which thinks
One soul above another kindles in us.†Canto 2.1-11heeds = pays close attention to; or does what is suggested - 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 2.1-11heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested - Then he turned round to us, and he gave heed,
Just lifting up his eyes above his thigh,
And said: "Now go thou up, for thou art valiant."†Canto 2.1-11 - Take heed your coming hither harm you not!†
Canto 2.1-11
- Seven P's upon my forehead he described
With the sword's point, and, "Take heed that thou wash
These wounds, when thou shalt be within," he said.†Canto 2.1-11 - As to sustain a ceiling or a roof,
In place of corbel, oftentimes a figure
Is seen to join its knees unto its breast,
Which makes of the unreal real anguish
Arise in him who sees it, fashioned thus
Beheld I those, when I had ta'en good heed.†Canto 2.1-11 - We at the point were where no more ascends
The stairway upward, and were motionless,
Even as a ship, which at the shore arrives;
And I gave heed a little, if I might hear
Aught whatsoever in the circle new;
Then to my Master turned me round and said:
"Say, my sweet Father, what delinquency
Is purged here in the circle where we are?†Canto 2.12-22 - Purgatorio: Canto XXVI
While on the brink thus one before the other
We went upon our way, oft the good Master
Said: "Take thou heed!†Canto 2.23-33 - And with my shadow did I make the flame
Appear more red; and even to such a sign
Shades saw I many, as they went, give heed.†Canto 2.23-33 - When from the flesh to spirit I ascended,
And beauty and virtue were in me increased,
I was to him less dear and less delightful;
And into ways untrue he turned his steps,
Pursuing the false images of good,
That never any promises fulfil;
Nor prayer for inspiration me availed,
By means of which in dreams and otherwise
I called him back, so little did he heed them.†Canto 2.23-33 - Therefore, for that world's good which liveth ill,
Fix on the car thine eyes, and what thou seest,
Having returned to earth, take heed thou write.†Canto 2.23-33 - Thus that effulgence; whence I gave it heed;
Then round unto my Lady turned my sight,
And on this side and that was stupefied;
For in her eyes was burning such a smile
That with mine own methought I touched the bottom
Both of my grace and of my Paradise!†Canto 3.12-22
Definitions:
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(1)
(heed) pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)