All 36 Uses of
manifest
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
- Here thy nobility shall be manifest!
Canto 1.1-11 *manifest = made obvious or shown
- Thy mode of speaking makes thee manifest A native of that noble fatherland, To which perhaps I too molestful was.†
Canto 1.1-11
- To God, to ourselves, and to our neighbour can we Use force; I say on them and on their things, As thou shalt hear with reason manifest.†
Canto 1.1-11
- Clearly to manifest these novel things, I say that we arrived upon a plain, Which from its bed rejecteth every plant; The dolorous forest is a garland to it All round about, as the sad moat to that; There close upon the edge we stayed our feet.†
Canto 1.12-22
- Vengeance of God, O how much oughtest thou By each one to be dreaded, who doth read That which was manifest unto mine eyes!†
Canto 1.12-22
- This much will I have manifest to you; Provided that my conscience do not chide me, For whatsoever Fortune I am ready.†
Canto 1.12-22
- We from the bridge descended at its head, Where it connects itself with the eighth bank, And then was manifest to me the Bolgia; And I beheld therein a terrible throng Of serpents, and of such a monstrous kind, That the remembrance still congeals my blood Let Libya boast no longer with her sand; For if Chelydri, Jaculi, and Phareae She breeds, with Cenchri and with Amphisbaena, Neither so many plagues nor so malignant E'er showed she with all Ethiopia, Nor with whatever on the Red Sea…†
Canto 1.23-34
- When we were now right over the last cloister Of Malebolge, so that its lay-brothers Could manifest themselves unto our sight, Divers lamentings pierced me through and through, Which with compassion had their arrows barbed, Whereat mine ears I covered with my hands.†
Canto 1.23-34
- Run to the mountain to strip off the slough, That lets not God be manifest to you.†
Canto 2.1-11
- The words of theirs which they returned to those That he whom I was following had spoken, It was not manifest from whom they came, But it was said: "To the right hand come with us Along the bank, and ye shall find a pass Possible for living person to ascend.†
Canto 2.1-11
- For when I had approached so near to them That manifest to me their acts became, Drained was I at the eyes by heavy grief.†
Canto 2.12-22
- Rome, that reformed the world, accustomed was Two suns to have, which one road and the other, Of God and of the world, made manifest.†
Canto 2.12-22
- …belated almost unto midnight, Now made the stars appear to us more rare, Formed like a bucket, that is all ablaze, And counter to the heavens ran through those paths Which the sun sets aflame, when he of Rome Sees it 'twixt Sardes and Corsicans go down; And that patrician shade, for whom is named Pietola more than any Mantuan town, Had laid aside the burden of my lading; Whence I, who reason manifest and plain In answer to my questions had received, Stood like a man in drowsy reverie.†
Canto 2.12-22
- What avarice does is here made manifest In the purgation of these souls converted, And no more bitter pain the Mountain has.†
Canto 2.12-22
- Uttered in front of us amid the weeping Even as a woman does who is in child-birth; And in continuance: "How poor thou wast Is manifested by that hostelry Where thou didst lay thy sacred burden down."†
Canto 2.12-22
- I still was wondering what so famished them, For the occasion not yet manifest Of their emaciation and sad squalor; And lo! from out the hollow of his head His eyes a shade turned on me, and looked keenly; Then cried aloud: "What grace to me is this?"†
Canto 2.23-33
- …that all is disengaged In living ether, doth this motion strike And make the forest sound, for it is dense; And so much power the stricken plant possesses That with its virtue it impregns the air, And this, revolving, scatters it around; And yonder earth, according as 'tis worthy In self or in its clime, conceives and bears Of divers qualities the divers trees; It should not seem a marvel then on earth, This being heard, whenever any plant Without seed manifest there taketh root.†
Canto 2.23-33
- One showed himself as one of the disciples Of that supreme Hippocrates, whom nature Made for the animals she holds most dear; Contrary care the other manifested, With sword so shining and so sharp, it caused Terror to me on this side of the river.†
Canto 2.23-33
- And she: "Shouldst thou be silent, or deny What thou confessest, not less manifest Would be thy fault, by such a Judge 'tis known.†
Canto 2.23-33
- O power divine, lend'st thou thyself to me So that the shadow of the blessed realm Stamped in my brain I can make manifest, Thou'lt see me come unto thy darling tree, And crown myself thereafter with those leaves Of which the theme and thou shall make me worthy.†
Canto 3.1-11
- Were it the former, in the sun's eclipse It would be manifest by the shining through Of light, as through aught tenuous interfused.†
Canto 3.1-11
- Think, Reader, if what here is just beginning No farther should proceed, how thou wouldst have An agonizing need of knowing more; And of thyself thou'lt see how I from these Was in desire of hearing their conditions, As they unto mine eyes were manifest.†
Canto 3.1-11
- By seeing every good therein exults The sainted soul, which the fallacious world Makes manifest to him who listeneth well; The body whence 'twas hunted forth is lying Down in Cieldauro, and from martyrdom And banishment it came unto this peace.†
Canto 3.1-11
- Envoy and servant sooth he seemed of Christ, For the first love made manifest in him Was the first counsel that was given by Christ.†
Canto 3.12-22
- If such the one wheel of the Biga was, In which the Holy Church itself defended And in the field its civic battle won, Truly full manifest should be to thee The excellence of the other, unto whom Thomas so courteous was before my coming.†
Canto 3.12-22
- Far more than uselessly he leaves the shore, (Since he returneth not the same he went,) Who fishes for the truth, and has no skill; And in the world proofs manifest thereof Parmenides, Melissus, Brissus are, And many who went on and knew not whither; Thus did Sabellius, Arius, and those fools Who have been even as swords unto the Scriptures In rendering distorted their straight faces.†
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
- …was smiling my own treasure Which there I had discovered, flashed at first As in the sunshine doth a golden mirror; Then made reply: "A conscience overcast Or with its own or with another's shame, Will taste forsooth the tartness of thy word; But ne'ertheless, all falsehood laid aside, Make manifest thy vision utterly, And let them scratch wherever is the itch; For if thine utterance shall offensive be At the first taste, a vital nutriment 'Twill leave thereafter, when it is digested.†
Canto 3.12-22
- Then it began: "He who a compass turned On the world's outer verge, and who within it Devised so much occult and manifest, Could not the impress of his power so make On all the universe, as that his Word Should not remain in infinite excess.†
Canto 3.12-22
- Thus far adown the holy stairway's steps Have I descended but to give thee welcome With words, and with the light that mantles me; Nor did more love cause me to be more ready, For love as much and more up there is burning, As doth the flaming manifest to thee.†
Canto 3.12-22
- Thence there appeared the temperateness of Jove 'Twixt son and father, and to me was clear The change that of their whereabout they make; And all the seven made manifest to me How great they are, and eke how swift they are, And how they are in distant habitations.†
Canto 3.12-22
- Say, thou good Christian; manifest thyself; What is the Faith?†
Canto 3.23-33
- "O holy father, spirit who beholdest What thou believedst so that thou o'ercamest, Towards the sepulchre, more youthful feet," Began I, "thou dost wish me in this place The form to manifest of my prompt belief, And likewise thou the cause thereof demandest.†
Canto 3.23-33
- Thy brother, too, far more explicitly, There where he treateth of the robes of white, This revelation manifests to us.†
Canto 3.23-33
- And in what manner time in such a pot May have its roots, and in the rest its leaves, Now unto thee can manifest be made.†
Canto 3.23-33
- Then as a folk who have been under masks Seem other than before, if they divest The semblance not their own they disappeared in, Thus into greater pomp were changed for me The flowerets and the sparks, so that I saw Both of the Courts of Heaven made manifest.†
Canto 3.23-33
Definition:
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(manifest as in: manifest destiny) obvious; or to make obvious; or to show or demonstrate