All 15 Uses
mortal
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Faust -- Part 1 -- translated by Theil
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- Divert
This mortal spirit from his primal source;
Him, canst thou seize, thy power exert
And lead him on thy downward course,
Then stand abash'd, when thou perforce must own,
A good man in his darkest aberration,
Of the right path is conscious still.† - Read in a thousand tomes that, everywhere,
Self-torture is the lot of human-kind,
With but one mortal happy, here and there?† - Dare with determin'd will to burst the portals
Past which in terror others fain would steal
Now is the time, through deeds, to show that mortals
The calm sublimity of gods can feel;
To shudder not at yonder dark abyss,
Where phantasy creates her own self-torturing brood,
Right onward to the yawning gulf to press,
Around whose narrow jaws rolleth hell's fiery flood;
With glad resolve to take the fatal leap,
Though danger threaten thee, to sink in endless sleep!† - Mortal, all hail to thee,
Thou whom mortality,
Earth's sad reality,
Held as in prison.† - A young man then, each house you sought,
Where reign'd the mortal pestilence.† - that when on spirit-wing we rise,
No wing material lifts our mortal clay.† - Can ye aid him, spirits all,
Leave him not in mortal thrall!† - I'll give thee more
Than mortal eye hath e'er beheld before.† - Was ever mortal spirit, in its high endeavour,
Fathom'd by Being such as thou?† - MEPHISTOPHELES
Oh, credit me, who still as ages roll,
Have chew'd this bitter fare from year to year,
No mortal, from the cradle to the bier,
Digests the ancient leaven!† - MEPHISTOPHELES (in FAUST'S long gown)
Mortal!† - Nature's impenetrable agencies,
Are they not thronging on thy heart and brain,
Viewless, or visible to mortal ken,
Around thee weaving their mysterious chain?† - Yet here ye dance, as other mortals do!†
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- MEPHISTOPHELES Now we are once again at our wit's end, just where the reason of you mortals snaps!†
- Well for you, poor mortals, that 'tis not yours to wield!†
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2)
(mortal as in: a mortal wound) causing death
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(3)
(mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)