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... beauty of character , the standard of chastity , the love of virtue departed ? 3 Nature weeps , character passes away , chastity is wholly banished from its former high station , and become an 15 orphan . The sex of active nature ...
... beauty of character , the standard of chastity , the love of virtue departed ? 3 Nature weeps , character passes away , chastity is wholly banished from its former high station , and become an 15 orphan . The sex of active nature ...
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... beauty itself , though her godlike g to be a goddess , though for her the th fail in the hand of Jove , and every s would pause and lie inactive , though for would become a slave , and Hippolytu 45 love , would sell his very chastity ...
... beauty itself , though her godlike g to be a goddess , though for her the th fail in the hand of Jove , and every s would pause and lie inactive , though for would become a slave , and Hippolytu 45 love , would sell his very chastity ...
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... beauty . And a golden comb smoothed into the dance of due orderliness the gold of her hair , 15 and wondered to have found a countenance agreeing , for the gold of fancy imposed upon the vision the false conclusion of harmonious color ...
... beauty . And a golden comb smoothed into the dance of due orderliness the gold of her hair , 15 and wondered to have found a countenance agreeing , for the gold of fancy imposed upon the vision the false conclusion of harmonious color ...
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... , fish swam according to their kind , and sported in great numbers 125 along the shore . On the opposite side , the shining beauty of a group of three stars sparkled with glad delight . Of these stones the first , beaming with 8 ...
... , fish swam according to their kind , and sported in great numbers 125 along the shore . On the opposite side , the shining beauty of a group of three stars sparkled with glad delight . Of these stones the first , beaming with 8 ...
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... beauty . On this , as the poetical fancy of the cutting showed , a virgin , by her excelling fair- 130 ness , like an Astræa rivaled the stars . The second neither wantoned in excessive splendor nor begged the sparks of a meagre glory ...
... beauty . On this , as the poetical fancy of the cutting showed , a virgin , by her excelling fair- 130 ness , like an Astræa rivaled the stars . The second neither wantoned in excessive splendor nor begged the sparks of a meagre glory ...
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¹ Reading ALAIN DE LILLE another's anvils appearance Aristotle avarice Bacchus banished beauty belly Ben Jonson birth body chariot chastity cithara clothed cloud coin color command Complaint of Nature countenance Cupid delight diadem divine dost drunken earth Emending evil face faith false falsehood fame favor fear flattery flatulence flood garments gave gender Generosity Genius gifts glory Glossary golden grace grief hæc hair hand harmonious head heaven Hippolytus honor human Hymen Jonson kiss labor light lust lyre madness maiden majesty marked marriage marvelous masculine METRE Migne mind mother mystery Nature PROSE neith ness night numbers palace Ph.D Phoebus picture poets poverty praise predicate pride reason rejoices riches scorned Scylla seemed shine shipwreck silence sleep song sorrow speech splendor spring stars stones stray suffer sweet tears thee thine things thirst thou tongue tunic Tyndaris Venus vices virgin virtue wandering wanton winter Zephyrus
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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...