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... face ; and this in turn chastened the p 35 with cool whiteness - like rose - color Her smooth chin , fairer than crystalli a silvery brightness . Her neck , while n was molded gracefully , and did not to be close to the shoulders . The ...
... face ; and this in turn chastened the p 35 with cool whiteness - like rose - color Her smooth chin , fairer than crystalli a silvery brightness . Her neck , while n was molded gracefully , and did not to be close to the shoulders . The ...
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... faces of which turned and alternated , now promised a kindly clearness , now gave itself up to the clouds of obscurity . On this the figure of a scorpion stood out , and presaged with its face laughter , 140 with the sting of its tail ...
... faces of which turned and alternated , now promised a kindly clearness , now gave itself up to the clouds of obscurity . On this the figure of a scorpion stood out , and presaged with its face laughter , 140 with the sting of its tail ...
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... not be t name of war where you strike , but The ostrich , disregarding a worldly dwelt like a hermit in solitudes of de swan , herald of its own death , foreto sweet lyre of music the stopping a fish with the face of a man . ged.
... not be t name of war where you strike , but The ostrich , disregarding a worldly dwelt like a hermit in solitudes of de swan , herald of its own death , foreto sweet lyre of music the stopping a fish with the face of a man . ged.
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Alanus (de Insulis). a fish with the face of a man . ged , seemingly 1 - fish ; but the moon , atoned regions of the portion of the igratory fish , nd had their r . There the ot from war- in the dun- mall size not more friendly season ...
Alanus (de Insulis). a fish with the face of a man . ged , seemingly 1 - fish ; but the moon , atoned regions of the portion of the igratory fish , nd had their r . There the ot from war- in the dun- mall size not more friendly season ...
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... face full art . Here she had ordered a variety 15 which1 was a writing - surface of roy yet ignorant of the thumb of the wr the riches of the spring and its man of the earth and its stars , which the tures showed , representing the ...
... face full art . Here she had ordered a variety 15 which1 was a writing - surface of roy yet ignorant of the thumb of the wr the riches of the spring and its man of the earth and its stars , which the tures showed , representing the ...
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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...