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... hand of Jove , and every s would pause and lie inactive , though for would become a slave , and Hippolytu 45 love , would sell his very chastity . W kisses lie untouched on maiden lips , a to gain a profit from them ? These d me would ...
... hand of Jove , and every s would pause and lie inactive , though for would become a slave , and Hippolytu 45 love , would sell his very chastity . W kisses lie untouched on maiden lips , a to gain a profit from them ? These d me would ...
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... hand , was more easily seen than the others . Its effect was 165 with some to change hate to love , and with others by its commanding virtue and power to render im- perfect charity perfect ; for its kindly operation asserted it to be ...
... hand , was more easily seen than the others . Its effect was 165 with some to change hate to love , and with others by its commanding virtue and power to render im- perfect charity perfect ; for its kindly operation asserted it to be ...
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... the comfort of her supporting hands , and , encircling me in her embrace and sweet- ening my lips with modest kisses , made me well , who ΤΟ mind to sicken , so that not only thine ed PROSE III 1 ] The Complaint of Nature 23.
... the comfort of her supporting hands , and , encircling me in her embrace and sweet- ening my lips with modest kisses , made me well , who ΤΟ mind to sicken , so that not only thine ed PROSE III 1 ] The Complaint of Nature 23.
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... hand , wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament of reason , turn and slip down into the decline of things of earth . Now the latter , lust , leads the human 95 mind into the ruin of vices , so that it perishes ; the former ...
... hand , wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament of reason , turn and slip down into the decline of things of earth . Now the latter , lust , leads the human 95 mind into the ruin of vices , so that it perishes ; the former ...
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... hands from the chastening rods of Venus , there dawns the shadow of untruth , nor in such matter is the poet found vary- ing from his peculiar quality . For surely , when the dreams of Epicurus are put to sleep , the madness 225 of ...
... hands from the chastening rods of Venus , there dawns the shadow of untruth , nor in such matter is the poet found vary- ing from his peculiar quality . For surely , when the dreams of Epicurus are put to sleep , the madness 225 of ...
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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...