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... reason of man , but also made the celestials forget their godship , came forth from the places of streams , and , like bearers of 65 tribute , presented little gifts of aromatic nectar to the coming queen . When the virgin had ...
... reason of man , but also made the celestials forget their godship , came forth from the places of streams , and , like bearers of 65 tribute , presented little gifts of aromatic nectar to the coming queen . When the virgin had ...
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... reason . For the activity of reason , taking its rise from a celestial source , passes through the low levels 90 of earth , and , watchful of heavenly things , turns again to heaven . The activities of lust , on the other hand ...
... reason . For the activity of reason , taking its rise from a celestial source , passes through the low levels 90 of earth , and , watchful of heavenly things , turns again to heaven . The activities of lust , on the other hand ...
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... reason the understanding is amazed at the th stood , the perception is confused by be perceived ; and since here all ... reason , she attains reason by faith . that I may believe , she believes in may know . I assent by perceiving an ...
... reason the understanding is amazed at the th stood , the perception is confused by be perceived ; and since here all ... reason , she attains reason by faith . that I may believe , she believes in may know . I assent by perceiving an ...
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... reason to me , who desire it , why thou , a stranger from the skies , seekest the earth , why thou offerest to our world the gifts of thy deity , why thy features are bedewed with a shower of weeping , what the tears on thy countenance ...
... reason to me , who desire it , why thou , a stranger from the skies , seekest the earth , why thou offerest to our world the gifts of thy deity , why thy features are bedewed with a shower of weeping , what the tears on thy countenance ...
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... reasons , then , did I pass from the secret places of the heaven's court above , and descend to the lowlands of this mortal earth , that I might . 160 with thee as with my friend and confidant , lay down my sad burden of the accursed ...
... reasons , then , did I pass from the secret places of the heaven's court above , and descend to the lowlands of this mortal earth , that I might . 160 with thee as with my friend and confidant , lay down my sad burden of the accursed ...
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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...