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... gift of Nature for a gift , in selling for the love of money his sex . Such deserve anathema in the temple of Genius , for they deny the tithes of Genius and their own duties . 65 PROSE I. Cum hæc elegiaca lamentabili ejulatione ...
... gift of Nature for a gift , in selling for the love of money his sex . Such deserve anathema in the temple of Genius , for they deny the tithes of Genius and their own duties . 65 PROSE I. Cum hæc elegiaca lamentabili ejulatione ...
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... gifts of aromatic nectar to the coming queen . When the virgin had graciously re- ceived these , she showed her love for the maidens by the encircling yoke of embraces , and by many a earth repeated kiss . The earth , lately stripped of ...
... gifts of aromatic nectar to the coming queen . When the virgin had graciously re- ceived these , she showed her love for the maidens by the encircling yoke of embraces , and by many a earth repeated kiss . The earth , lately stripped of ...
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... gifts . Nymphs of the dell filled their laps with flowers , and now reddened the royal chariot with blushing blossoms , now made it lily - like 85 with white flower - leaves . Flora generously presented the virgin with an undergarment ...
... gifts . Nymphs of the dell filled their laps with flowers , and now reddened the royal chariot with blushing blossoms , now made it lily - like 85 with white flower - leaves . Flora generously presented the virgin with an undergarment ...
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... gifts bespeak me , who h with such abundant favor and kind thine early age , as vicegerent_of_G 35 have ordered by sure management course ; who in time past brought material of thy body out from the in primordial matter into true being ...
... gifts bespeak me , who h with such abundant favor and kind thine early age , as vicegerent_of_G 35 have ordered by sure management course ; who in time past brought material of thy body out from the in primordial matter into true being ...
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... Gifts acquired by labor are brighter and more delightful than all those that are free . And he deserves the commendation of greater praise who toils 115 and receives little , than he who receives much at ease . The earlier labor ...
... Gifts acquired by labor are brighter and more delightful than all those that are free . And he deserves the commendation of greater praise who toils 115 and receives little , than he who receives much at ease . The earlier labor ...
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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...