All 14 Uses of
diverse
in
Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton
- In the order of which I speak, all natures are arranged, by diverse lots, more or less near to their source;[3] wherefore they are moved to diverse ports through the great sea of being, and each one with an instinct given to it which may bear it on.†
Canto 1-11
- In the order of which I speak, all natures are arranged, by diverse lots, more or less near to their source;[3] wherefore they are moved to diverse ports through the great sea of being, and each one with an instinct given to it which may bear it on.†
Canto 1-11
- And I, "That which here above appears to us diverse, I believe is caused by rare and dense bodies."†
Canto 1-11
- Diverse voices make sweet notes;†
Canto 1-11 *
- Diverse voices make sweet notes; thus in our life diverse benches[2] render sweet harmony among these wheels.†
Canto 1-11
- Therefore from one act issued things diverse; for unto God and unto the Jews one death was pleasing: by it earth trembled and the heavens were opened.†
Canto 1-11
- So he went on deducing far as here; then he concluded, "Hence it behoves that the roots of your works must be diverse.†
Canto 1-11
- [11] Human dispositions, the roots of human works, must be diverse in order to produce diverse effects.†
Canto 1-11
- [11] Human dispositions, the roots of human works, must be diverse in order to produce diverse effects.†
Canto 1-11
- But his flock has become so greedy of strange food that. it cannot but be scattered over diverse meadows; and as his sheep, remote and vagabond, go farther from him, the emptier of milk they return to the fold.†
Canto 1-11
- [2] The wax of these, and that which moulds it, are not of one mode, and therefore under the ideal stamp it shines now more now less;[3] whence it comes to pass that one same plant in respect to species bears better or worse fruit, and that ye are born with diverse dispositions.†
Canto 12-22
- But will and discourse in mortals, for the reason which is manifest to you, are diversely feathered in their wings.†
Canto 12-22
- [3] Wherefore, since the affection follows upon the act[4] that conceives, in this nature the sweetness of love diversely glows and warms.†
Canto 23-33
- The King through whom this realm reposes in such great love and in such great delight that no will is venturesome for more, creating all the minds in His own glad aspect, diversely endows with grace according to His own pleasure; and here let the fact suffice.†
Canto 23-33
Definition:
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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