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... false conclusion of harmonious color . But in truth her forehead , wide and full and even , was of the milk- white lily in color , and seemed to vie with the lily . Her eyebrows , starry in golden brightness , had neither 3 1 Reading ...
... false conclusion of harmonious color . But in truth her forehead , wide and full and even , was of the milk- white lily in color , and seemed to vie with the lily . Her eyebrows , starry in golden brightness , had neither 3 1 Reading ...
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... false light , supplied its sub- 60 stance , but the pure nobility of gold itself . With marvelous revolution and ceaseless turning , this dia- dem travelled from east to west , and then by back- ward motion was continually restored to ...
... false light , supplied its sub- 60 stance , but the pure nobility of gold itself . With marvelous revolution and ceaseless turning , this dia- dem travelled from east to west , and then by back- ward motion was continually restored to ...
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... false voice beguiled the quail , ignorant of the deceit of the serpent's figure . The woodpecker , architect of its own small house , 270 with its beak's pick made a little retreat in an oak . The hedge - sparrow , putting aside the ...
... false voice beguiled the quail , ignorant of the deceit of the serpent's figure . The woodpecker , architect of its own small house , 270 with its beak's pick made a little retreat in an oak . The hedge - sparrow , putting aside the ...
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... false wool , seemed to disgust the nostrils with a four days ' stench . The ram , robed in a nobler tunic , rejoiced in a plurality of wives , and beguiled the honor of marriage . The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute ...
... false wool , seemed to disgust the nostrils with a four days ' stench . The ram , robed in a nobler tunic , rejoiced in a plurality of wives , and beguiled the honor of marriage . The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute ...
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... false death of ecstasy , as it were struck dumb at the 290 strange presence of a marvelous apparition ; and I 1 Reading evaporavit , with A. and informing him of the laws of be darkened by PROSE III ] 31 The Complaint of Nature.
... false death of ecstasy , as it were struck dumb at the 290 strange presence of a marvelous apparition ; and I 1 Reading evaporavit , with A. and informing him of the laws of be darkened by PROSE III ] 31 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...