All 43 Uses of
mortal
in
Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton
- —Spirits of Lovers, Source of the order and the varieties in mortal things.†
Canto ATOC
- —Beatrice rebukes the covetousness of mortals.†
Canto ATOC
- The lamp of the world rises to mortals through different passages, but from that which joins four circles with three crosses it issues with better course and conjoined with a better star, and it tempers and seals the mundane wax more after its own fashion[1] Almost such a passage had made morning there and evening here;[2] and there all that hemisphere was white, and the other part black, when I saw Beatrice turned upon the left side, and looking into the sun: never did eagle so fix…†
Canto 1-11
- This bears the fire upward toward the moon; this is the motive force in mortal hearts; this binds together and unites the earth.†
Canto 1-11
- [2] [1] On earth, by mortal faculties.†
Canto 1-11
- I replied, "My Lady, devoutly to the utmost that I can, do I thank him who from the mortal world has removed me.†
Canto 1-11
- She smiled somewhat, and then she said, "If the opinion of mortals errs where the key of sense unlocks not, surely the shafts of wonder ought not now to pierce thee, since thou seest that the reason following the senses has short wings.†
Canto 1-11
- That our justice seems unjust in the eyes of mortals is argument of faith,[1] and not of heretical iniquity.†
Canto 1-11
- [1] Mortals would not trouble themselves concerning the justice of God, unless they had faith in it.†
Canto 1-11
- "Let not mortals take a vow in jest; be faithful, and not squint-eyed in doing this, as Jephthah was in his first. offering;[1] to whom it better behoved to say, 'I have done ill,' than, by keeping his vow, to do worse.†
Canto 1-11
- "I see clearly, how thou dost nest thyself in thine ownlight, and that by thine eyes thou drawest it, because they sparkle when thou smilest; but I know not who thou art, nor why thou hast, O worthy soul, thy station in the sphere which is veiled to mortals by another's rays.†
Canto 1-11
- But what the ensign which makes me speak had done before, and after was to do, through the mortal realm that is subject to it, becomes in appearance little and obscure, if in the hand of the third Caesar[8] it be looked at with clear eye, and with pure affection.†
Canto 1-11
- —Spirits of Lovers, Source of the order and the varieties in mortal things.†
Canto 1-11
- The revolving nature, which is the seal of the mortal wax, performs its art well, but does not distinguish one inn from another.†
Canto 1-11
- Heart of mortal was never so disposed to devotion, and so ready, with its own entire pleasure, to give itself to God, as I became at those words; and all my love was so set on Him that Beatrice was eclipsed in oblivion.†
Canto 1-11
- O insensate care of mortals, how defective are those syllogisms which make thee downward beat thy wings!†
Canto 1-11
- [3] The Heavens, which are "the seal of mortal wax" (Canto VIII.†
Canto 12-22
- Nor did he hide himself to me by choice, but by necessity, for his conception was set above the mark of mortals.†
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
- [1] Wherefore I, who am mortal, feel myself in this inequality,[2] and therefore I give not thanks, save with my heart, for thy paternal welcome.†
Canto 12-22
- [1] But will and the discourse of reason, corresponding to affection and intelligence, are unequal in mortals, owing to their imperfection.†
Canto 12-22
- Wheeling it sang, and said, "As are my notes to thee who understandest them not, so is the eternal judgment to you mortals."†
Canto 12-22
- "The part in me which in mortal eagles sees and endures the sun," it began to me, "must now be fixedly looked upon, because of the fires whereof I make my shape, those wherewith the eye in my head sparkles are the highest of all their grades.†
Canto 12-22
- And ye, mortals, keep yourselves restrained in judging; for we who see God know not yet all the elect.†
Canto 12-22
- …again upon the countenance of my Lady, and my mind with them, and from every other intent it was withdrawn; and she was not smiling, but, "If I should smile," she began to me, "thou wouldst become such as Semele was when she became ashes; for my beauty, which along the stairs of the eternal palace is kindled the more, as thou hast seen, the higher it ascends, is so resplendent that, if it were not tempered, at its effulgence thy mortal power would be as a bough shattered by thunder.†
Canto 12-22
- "Thou hast thy hearing mortal, as thy sight," it replied to me; "therefore no song is here for the same reason that Beatrice has no smile.†
Canto 12-22
- And when thou retumest to the mortal world, carry this back, so that it may no more presume to move its feet toward such a goal.†
Canto 12-22
- Little of mortal life was remaining for me,
Canto 12-22 *mortal = human
- The flesh of mortals is so soft that a good beginning suffices not below from the springing of the oak to the forming of the acorn.†
Canto 12-22
- O glorious stars, O light impregnate with great virtue, from which I acknowledge all my genius, whatever it may be; with you was born and with you was hiding himself he who is father of every mortal life, when I first felt the Tuscan air;[1] and then, when the grace was bestowed on me of entrance within the lofty wheel which turns you, your region was allotted to me.†
Canto 12-22
- But whoso should consider the ponderous theme and the mortal shoulder which therewith is laden would not blame it if under this it tremble.†
Canto 23-33
- "[3] "Lift up thy head and make thyself assured; for that which comes up here from the mortal world needs must be ripened in our rays."†
Canto 23-33
- Before I descended to the infernal anguish, the Supreme Good, whence comes the gladness that swathes me, was on earth called I; EL it was called afterwards;[3] and that must needs be,[4] for the custom of mortals is as a leaf on a branch, which goes away and another comes.†
Canto 23-33
- —Beatrice rebukes the covetousness of mortals.†
Canto 23-33
- And thou, son, who because of thy mortal weight wilt again return below, open thy mouth, and conceal not that which I conceal not.†
Canto 23-33
- O covetousness,[1] which whelms mortals beneath thee, so that no one has power to withdraw his eyes from out thy waves!†
Canto 23-33
- After she who imparadises my mind had disclosed the truth counter to the present life of wretched mortals, as he, who is lighted by a candle from behind, sees its flame in a mirror before he has it in sight or in thought, and turns round to see if the glass tell him the truth, and sees that it accords with it as the note with its measure;[1] I thus my memory recollects that I did, looking into the beautiful eyes, wherewith Love made the cord to ensnare me.†
Canto 23-33
- And if a mortal proffered on earth so much of secret truth, I would not have thee wonder, for he who saw it hereabove[4] disclosed it to him, with much else of the truth of these circles.†
Canto 23-33
- This nature[1] so extends in number, that never was there speech or mortal concept that could go so far.†
Canto 23-33
- If the Barbarians, coming from a region such that every day it is covered by Helice,[1] revolving with her son of whom she is fond, when they beheld Rome and her arduous work, were wonderstruck, what time Lateran rose above mortal things,[2] I, who to the divine from the human, to the eternal from the temporal, had come, and from Florence to a people just and sane, with what amazement must I have been full!†
Canto 23-33
- From that region which thunders highest up no mortal eye is so far distant, in whatsoever sea it loses itself the lowest,[1] as there from Beatrice was my sight.†
Canto 23-33
- Here thou art to us the noonday torch of charity, and below, among mortals, thou art the living fount of hope.†
Canto 23-33
- O Supreme Light, that so high upliftest Thyself from mortal conceptions, re-lend a little to my mind of what Thou didst appear, and make my tongue so powerful that it may be able to leave one single spark of Thy glory for the future people; for, by returning somewhat to my memory and by sounding a little in these verses, more of Thy victory shall be conceived.†
Canto 23-33
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death