All 21 Uses
vengeance
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
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- Not causeless is this journey to the abyss;
Thus is it willed on high, where Michael wrought
Vengeance upon the proud adultery.†Canto 1.1-11 *vengeance = the act of taking revenge - Then touched he me, and said: "This one is Nessus,
Who perished for the lovely Dejanira,
And for himself, himself did vengeance take.†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 - Even as he did there at the fight of Phlegra,
And shot his bolts at me with all his might,
He would not have thereby a joyous vengeance.†Canto 1.12-22 - There did he leave her pregnant and forlorn;
Such sin unto such punishment condemns him,
And also for Medea is vengeance done.†Canto 1.12-22 - O how severe it is,
That blows like these in vengeance poureth down!†Canto 1.23-34 - He answered me: "Within there are tormented
Ulysses and Diomed, and thus together
They unto vengeance run as unto wrath.†Canto 1.23-34 - Unless thou comest to increase the vengeance
of Montaperti, why dost thou molest me?†Canto 1.23-34 - The wretched woman in the midst of these
Seemed to be saying: "Give me vengeance, Lord,
For my dead son, for whom my heart is breaking."†Canto 2.1-11 - I was the root of that malignant plant
Which overshadows all the Christian world,
So that good fruit is seldom gathered from it;
But if Douay and Ghent, and Lille and Bruges
Had Power, soon vengeance would be taken on it;
And this I pray of Him who judges all.†Canto 2.12-22 - shall I be joyful made
By looking on the vengeance which, concealed,
Makes sweet thine anger in thy secrecy?†Canto 2.12-22 - Purgatorio: Canto XXI
The natural thirst, that ne'er is satisfied
Excepting with the water for whose grace
The woman of Samaria besought,
Put me in travail, and haste goaded me
Along the encumbered path behind my Leader
And I was pitying that righteous vengeance;
And lo!†Canto 2.12-22 - "If I unfold to him the eternal vengeance,"
Responded Statius, "where thou present art,
Be my excuse that I can naught deny thee."†Canto 2.23-33 - Know that the vessel which the serpent broke
Was, and is not; but let him who is guilty
Think that God's vengeance does not fear a sop.†Canto 2.23-33 - 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 - Now here attend to what I answer thee;
Later it ran with Titus to do vengeance
Upon the vengeance of the ancient sin.†Canto 3.1-11 - Now here attend to what I answer thee;
Later it ran with Titus to do vengeance
Upon the vengeance of the ancient sin.†Canto 3.1-11 - Short while did Beatrice endure me thus;
And she began, lighting me with a smile
Such as would make one happy in the fire:
"According to infallible advisement,
After what manner a just vengeance justly
Could be avenged has put thee upon thinking,
But I will speedily thy mind unloose;
And do thou listen, for these words of mine
Of a great doctrine will a present make thee.†Canto 3.1-11 - It should no longer now seem difficult
To thee, when it is said that a just vengeance
By a just court was afterward avenged.†Canto 3.1-11 - The blame shall follow the offended party
In outcry as is usual; but the vengeance
Shall witness to the truth that doth dispense it.†Canto 3.12-22 - After what wise the singing would have changed thee
And I by smiling, thou canst now imagine,
Since that the cry has startled thee so much,
In which if thou hadst understood its prayers
Already would be known to thee the vengeance
Which thou shalt look upon before thou diest.†Canto 3.12-22
Definitions:
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(1)
(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.) -
(2)
(with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)