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... common material , but rejoiced in a skilled workmanship , served for her mantle . Its many intricate folds showed the Su color of water , and on it a graphic picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into ...
... common material , but rejoiced in a skilled workmanship , served for her mantle . Its many intricate folds showed the Su color of water , and on it a graphic picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into ...
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... common fish or terms . The shad accompanied the vern offered with the joys of spring the deli vor , greeting the tastes of men with 330 The small muræna , slit with many an ope the germs of fever for persons dining . copied the nature ...
... common fish or terms . The shad accompanied the vern offered with the joys of spring the deli vor , greeting the tastes of men with 330 The small muræna , slit with many an ope the germs of fever for persons dining . copied the nature ...
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... common proverb witnesses , the familiar communication of a thing is the mother of contempt . The trump of Aristotelian authority declares that he lessens the majesty of mysteries who divulges secrets to the unworthy . But lest I should ...
... common proverb witnesses , the familiar communication of a thing is the mother of contempt . The trump of Aristotelian authority declares that he lessens the majesty of mysteries who divulges secrets to the unworthy . But lest I should ...
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... common If thou wert willing to gather up pathy of thy mind and to treasur thy heart that which I would say , I labyrinth of thy perplexity . ' To these words I returned , with my voice , a fitting reply . ' For nothing , ' said I , ' O ...
... common If thou wert willing to gather up pathy of thy mind and to treasur thy heart that which I would say , I labyrinth of thy perplexity . ' To these words I returned , with my voice , a fitting reply . ' For nothing , ' said I , ' O ...
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... poisoned . Of such of these 130 men as profess the grammar of love , some embrace only the masculine gender , some the feminine , others 38 The Complaint of Nature [ PROSE IV the common PROSE IV ] 37 The Complaint of Nature.
... poisoned . Of such of these 130 men as profess the grammar of love , some embrace only the masculine gender , some the feminine , others 38 The Complaint of Nature [ PROSE IV the common PROSE IV ] 37 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...