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activity another's appearance approach beauty become birth body bound brought chastity clear close clothed coin color coming command common connection continual countenance course death delight desire diadem divine earth English evil excess eyes face faith false favor fear figure fire flood flowers forced garments gave gifts give glory hair hand harmonious head honor human joined kiss labor light living lust madness marked material matter Migne mind mother Nature night Notes offered peace Ph.D picture places possesses poverty praise present proper Reading reason rejoiced riches rise rose rule seemed seen shine showed silence skilled sleep song sorrow sound speak speech spirit splendor spring stars stones strength suffer sweet tears thee things thou thought turn universe various Venus vices virgin virtue wandering wealth wisdom wish
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Page 3 - The sex of active nature trembles shamefully at the way in which it declines into passive nature. Man is made woman, he blackens the honor of his sex, the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender. He is both predicate and subject, he becomes likewise of two declensions, he pushes the ;, laws of grammar too far.
Page 40 - ... that in the shallow exterior of literature «° the poetic lyre sounds a false note, but within speaks to its hearers of the mystery of loftier understanding, so that, the waste of outer falsity cast aside, the reader finds, in secret within, the sweeter kernel of truth?
Page 49 - I do not deny the essential nature of love honorableness if it is checked by the bridle of moderation, if it is restrained by the reins of sobriety...
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| Title | The Complaint of Nature, Volumes 36-38 The Complaint of Nature, Douglas Maxwell Moffat Volume 36 of Yale studies in English, ISSN 0084-3482 |
| Author | Alanus (de Insulis) |
| Translated by | Douglas Maxwell Moffat |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1908 |
| ISBN | 0208011315, 9780208011312 |
| Length | 95 pages |
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