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... material , but rejoiced in a skilled workmanship , served for her mantle . Its many intricate folds showed the Su color of water , and on it a graphic picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into numerous ...
... material , but rejoiced in a skilled workmanship , served for her mantle . Its many intricate folds showed the Su color of water , and on it a graphic picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into numerous ...
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... material beneath them , but quickly vanished and died away , leaving no traces . Although she often quickened them and caused them to live , yet they could not endure in the plan of her composition . Now the virgin , as before said ...
... material beneath them , but quickly vanished and died away , leaving no traces . Although she often quickened them and caused them to live , yet they could not endure in the plan of her composition . Now the virgin , as before said ...
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... material of thy body out from the in primordial matter into true being ; misshapen countenance , which , so 40 often to me , and marked it with the appearance , and ennobled it , dest beauty and grace of lineament , wit cellent vesture ...
... material of thy body out from the in primordial matter into true being ; misshapen countenance , which , so 40 often to me , and marked it with the appearance , and ennobled it , dest beauty and grace of lineament , wit cellent vesture ...
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... material word and by its real existence , the mental word which He had conceived from the everlasting foundation of the universe , like a splendid world's architect , like a goldsmith working in gold , like the skilful artisan of a ...
... material word and by its real existence , the mental word which He had conceived from the everlasting foundation of the universe , like a splendid world's architect , like a goldsmith working in gold , like the skilful artisan of a ...
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... material , in order that his clear deity may shine out the more divinely in a vessel of gold . Thence this same goblet , which rivals the glories of the ether in its brightness , and strives 55 with the green light of the emerald in its ...
... material , in order that his clear deity may shine out the more divinely in a vessel of gold . Thence this same goblet , which rivals the glories of the ether in its brightness , and strives 55 with the green light of the emerald in its ...
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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...