All 46 Uses of

mortal

in

The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow

Their cemetery have upon this side With Epicurus all his followers, Who with the body mortal make the soul; But in the question thou dost put to me, Within here shalt thou soon be satisfied, And likewise in the wish thou keepest silent.†
Canto 1.1-11

As is that bull who breaks loose at the moment In which he has received the mortal blow, Who cannot walk, but staggers here and there, The Minotaur beheld I do the like; And he, the wary, cried: "Run to the passage; While he wroth, 'tis well thou shouldst descend."†
Canto 1.12-22

See how he holds them pointed up to heaven, Fanning the air with the eternal pinions, That do not moult themselves like mortal hair!†
Canto 2.1-11

It made reply to me: "Even as I loved thee In mortal body, so I love thee free; Therefore I stop; but wherefore goest thou?"†
Canto 2.1-11

Mortals, remain contented at the 'Quia;' For if ye had been able to see all, No need there were for Mary to give birth; And ye have seen desiring without fruit, Those whose desire would have been quieted, Which evermore is given them for a grief.†
Canto 2.1-11

After I had my body lacerated By these two mortal stabs, I gave myself Weeping to Him, who willingly doth pardon.†
Canto 2.1-11

I saw Briareus smitten by the dart Celestial, lying on the other side, Heavy upon the earth by mortal frost.†
Canto 2.12-22

And I: "He who is with me, and speaks not; And living am I; therefore ask of me, Spirit elect, if thou wouldst have me move O'er yonder yet my mortal feet for thee."†
Canto 2.12-22

Following behind him, I my forehead bore Like unto one who has it laden with thought, Who makes himself the half arch of a bridge, When I heard say, "Come, here the passage is," Spoken in a manner gentle and benign, Such as we hear not in this mortal region.†
Canto 2.12-22

And were it not that I my thoughts uplifted, When I the passage heard where thou exclaimest, As if indignant, unto human nature, 'To what impellest thou not, O cursed hunger Of gold, the appetite of mortal men?'†
Canto 2.12-22

I go up here to be no longer blind; A Lady is above, who wins this grace, Whereby the mortal through your world I bring.†
Canto 2.23-33

That apple sweet, which through so many branches The care of mortals goeth in pursuit of, To-day shall put in peace thy hungerings.†
Canto 2.23-33

And if the highest pleasure thus did fail thee By reason of my death, what mortal thing Should then have drawn thee into its desire?†
Canto 2.23-33

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

This bears away the fire towards the moon; This is in mortal hearts the motive power This binds together and unites the earth.†
Canto 3.1-11

I made reply: "Madonna, as devoutly As most I can do I give thanks to Him Who has removed me from the mortal world.†
Canto 3.1-11

Somewhat she smiled; and then, "If the opinion Of mortals be erroneous," she said, "Where'er the key of sense doth not unlock, Certes, the shafts of wonder should not pierce thee Now, forasmuch as, following the senses, Thou seest that the reason has short wings.†
Canto 3.1-11

That as unjust our justice should appear In eyes of mortals, is an argument Of faith, and not of sin heretical.†
Canto 3.1-11

Let mortals never take a vow in jest; Be faithful and not blind in doing that, As Jephthah was in his first offering, Whom more beseemed to say, 'I have done wrong, Than to do worse by keeping; and as foolish Thou the great leader of the Greeks wilt find, Whence wept Iphigenia her fair face, And made for her both wise and simple weep, Who heard such kind of worship spoken of.'†
Canto 3.1-11

But what the standard that has made me speak Achieved before, and after should achieve Throughout the mortal realm that lies beneath it, Becometh in appearance mean and dim, If in the hand of the third Caesar seen With eye unclouded and affection pure, Because the living Justice that inspires me Granted it, in the hand of him I speak of, The glory of doing vengeance for its wrath.†
Canto 3.1-11

Revolving Nature, which a signet is To mortal wax, doth practise well her art, But not one inn distinguish from another; Thence happens it that Esau differeth In seed from Jacob; and Quirinus comes From sire so vile that he is given to Mars.†
Canto 3.1-11

Never was heart of mortal so disposed To worship, nor to give itself to God With all its gratitude was it so ready, As at those words did I myself become; And all my love was so absorbed in Him, That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.†
Canto 3.1-11

Paradiso: Canto XI O Thou insensate care of mortal men, How inconclusive are the syllogisms That make thee beat thy wings in downward flight!†
Canto 3.1-11

Then, pleasant to the hearing and the sight, The spirit joined to its beginning things I understood not, so profound it spake; Nor did it hide itself from me by choice, But by necessity; for its conception Above the mark of mortals set itself.†
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

Whence I, who mortal am, feel in myself This inequality; so give not thanks, Save in my heart, for this paternal welcome.†
Canto 3.12-22

Circling around it sang, and said: "As are My notes to thee, who dost not comprehend them, Such is the eternal judgment to you mortals."†
Canto 3.12-22

"The part in me which sees and bears the sun In mortal eagles," it began to me, "Now fixedly must needs be looked upon; For of the fires of which I make my figure, Those whence the eye doth sparkle in my head Of all their orders the supremest are.†
Canto 3.12-22

And you, O mortals! hold yourselves restrained In judging; for ourselves, who look on God, We do not know as yet all the elect; And sweet to us is such a deprivation, Because our good in this good is made perfect, That whatsoe'er God wills, we also will."†
Canto 3.12-22

Because my beauty, that along the stairs Of the eternal palace more enkindles, As thou hast seen, the farther we ascend, If it were tempered not, is so resplendent That all thy mortal power in its effulgence Would seem a leaflet that the thunder crushes.†
Canto 3.12-22

"Thou hast thy hearing mortal as thy sight," It answer made to me; "they sing not here, For the same cause that Beatrice has not smiled.†
Canto 3.12-22

And to the mortal world, when thou returnest, This carry back, that it may not presume Longer tow'rd such a goal to move its feet.†
Canto 3.12-22

Little of mortal life remained to me, When I was called and dragged forth to the hat Which shifteth evermore from bad to worse.†
Canto 3.12-22

The flesh of mortals is so very soft,
Canto 3.12-22 *

mortals = humans (especially merely humans)

O glorious stars, O light impregnated With mighty virtue, from which I acknowledge All of my genius, whatsoe'er it be, With you was born, and hid himself with you, He who is father of all mortal life, When first I tasted of the Tuscan air; And then when grace was freely given to me To enter the high wheel which turns you round, Your region was allotted unto me.†
Canto 3.12-22

And therefore, representing Paradise, The sacred poem must perforce leap over, Even as a man who finds his way cut off; But whoso thinketh of the ponderous theme, And of the mortal shoulder laden with it, Should blame it not, if under this it tremble.†
Canto 3.23-33

"— "Lift up thy head, and make thyself assured; For what comes hither from the mortal world Must needs be ripened in our radiance."†
Canto 3.23-33

But the high Providence, that with Scipio At Rome the glory of the world defended, Will speedily bring aid, as I conceive; And thou, my son, who by thy mortal weight Shalt down return again, open thy mouth; What I conceal not, do not thou conceal.†
Canto 3.23-33

O Covetousness, that mortals dost ingulf Beneath thee so, that no one hath the power Of drawing back his eyes from out thy waves!†
Canto 3.23-33

Paradiso: Canto XXVIII After the truth against the present life Of miserable mortals was unfolded By her who doth imparadise my mind, As in a looking-glass a taper's flame He sees who from behind is lighted by it, Before he has it in his sight or thought, And turns him round to see if so the glass Tell him the truth, and sees that it accords Therewith as doth a music with its metre, In similar wise my memory recollecteth That I did, looking into those fair eyes, Of which Love made the…†
Canto 3.23-33

And if so much of secret truth a mortal Proffered on earth, I would not have thee marvel, For he who saw it here revealed it to him, With much more of the truth about these circles.†
Canto 3.23-33

This nature doth so multiply itself In numbers, that there never yet was speech Nor mortal fancy that can go so far.†
Canto 3.23-33

If the barbarians, coming from some region That every day by Helice is covered, Revolving with her son whom she delights in, Beholding Rome and all her noble works, Were wonder-struck, what time the Lateran Above all mortal things was eminent,— I who to the divine had from the human, From time unto eternity, had come, From Florence to a people just and sane, With what amazement must I have been filled!†
Canto 3.23-33

Not from that region which the highest thunders Is any mortal eye so far removed, In whatsoever sea it deepest sinks, As there from Beatrice my sight; but this Was nothing unto me; because her image Descended not to me by medium blurred.†
Canto 3.23-33

Here unto us thou art a noonday torch Of charity, and below there among mortals Thou art the living fountain-head of hope.†
Canto 3.23-33

O Light Supreme, that dost so far uplift thee From the conceits of mortals, to my mind Of what thou didst appear re-lend a little, And make my tongue of so great puissance, That but a single sparkle of thy glory It may bequeath unto the future people; For by returning to my memory somewhat, And by a little sounding in these verses, More of thy victory shall be conceived!†
Canto 3.23-33

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(mortal as in: mortal body)
human (especially merely human); or subject to death

mortal in The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow

mortal

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The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow