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... birth itself is given to sorrow . The Muse requests , this very grief commands , Nature implores that , as 10 I weep , I give them a mournful song . Alas ! whither 2 has the loveliness of Nature , the beauty of character , the standard ...
... birth itself is given to sorrow . The Muse requests , this very grief commands , Nature implores that , as 10 I weep , I give them a mournful song . Alas ! whither 2 has the loveliness of Nature , the beauty of character , the standard ...
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... birth through the openings of its nos- trils to an ill - formed progeny ; but by licking and shaping them again and again with its long , pointed tongue brought them to a better figure . The wolf 375 lurked in hiding , assuming the ...
... birth through the openings of its nos- trils to an ill - formed progeny ; but by licking and shaping them again and again with its long , pointed tongue brought them to a better figure . The wolf 375 lurked in hiding , assuming the ...
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... birth to the sweet - scented infa now matured into a goodlier fruit . E I knew of this series of pictures by ha and probability alone , and not by t tainty , I pass it by , buried in the p But the shoes , which had taken thei soft ...
... birth to the sweet - scented infa now matured into a goodlier fruit . E I knew of this series of pictures by ha and probability alone , and not by t tainty , I pass it by , buried in the p But the shoes , which had taken thei soft ...
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... birth . The candle of the sun banished ' winter's shade , forcing all cold to suffer exile . Still there lurked withdrawn 25 in many woods an illusory winter , which the new- born shadiness of the forest had made with leaves . Now to ...
... birth . The candle of the sun banished ' winter's shade , forcing all cold to suffer exile . Still there lurked withdrawn 25 in many woods an illusory winter , which the new- born shadiness of the forest had made with leaves . Now to ...
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... - 220 tive , and consider that my strength is of trifling degree . Take counsel from the author of theological 1 Reading nota , with B. and Migne . to Nature · of the nature of this birth , and in PROSE III ] 29 The Complaint of Nature.
... - 220 tive , and consider that my strength is of trifling degree . Take counsel from the author of theological 1 Reading nota , with B. and Migne . to Nature · of the nature of this birth , and in PROSE III ] 29 The Complaint of Nature.
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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...