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... honor of his sex , the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender . He is both predicate and subject , he 20 becomes likewise of two declensions , he pushes the laws of grammar too far . He , though made by Na- ture's skill ...
... honor of his sex , the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender . He is both predicate and subject , he 20 becomes likewise of two declensions , he pushes the laws of grammar too far . He , though made by Na- ture's skill ...
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... honor of marriage . The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute creation , and strove for the finer sagacity of man . The hare , seized with melancholy dread , not in sleep , but in the stupor of fear , dreamed , terrified , of ...
... honor of marriage . The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute creation , and strove for the finer sagacity of man . The hare , seized with melancholy dread , not in sleep , but in the stupor of fear , dreamed , terrified , of ...
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... honor the dulness of finer sagacity holy dread , not amed , terrified , which tempers elt , fought off en flesh . The more humble marriage with uld suffer di- UL certainty . But yet , as the assistanc probabilities suggested , I think ...
... honor the dulness of finer sagacity holy dread , not amed , terrified , which tempers elt , fought off en flesh . The more humble marriage with uld suffer di- UL certainty . But yet , as the assistanc probabilities suggested , I think ...
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... honor of honor to dis- grace , deform the fairness of the body with the ug- liness of lust , mar the color of beauty with lurid paint -the hue of adulterous desire - and even , as they 105 blossom into vices , deflower the bloom of ...
... honor of honor to dis- grace , deform the fairness of the body with the ug- liness of lust , mar the color of beauty with lurid paint -the hue of adulterous desire - and even , as they 105 blossom into vices , deflower the bloom of ...
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... honor , to come to shame 265 like a harlot . This tunic , then , is made with this rent , since by the unlawful assaults of man alone the garments of my modesty suffer disgrace and di- vision . ' Then said I : ' Now the stream of my ...
... honor , to come to shame 265 like a harlot . This tunic , then , is made with this rent , since by the unlawful assaults of man alone the garments of my modesty suffer disgrace and di- vision . ' Then said I : ' Now the stream of my ...
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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...