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... The ermine , scorning to be wedded to a more humble garment , laughed or wept in a splendid marriage with lustrous color . The beaver , lest it should suffer di- ublic of grazing innocent blood . vity of the dom- 16 ...
... The ermine , scorning to be wedded to a more humble garment , laughed or wept in a splendid marriage with lustrous color . The beaver , lest it should suffer di- ublic of grazing innocent blood . vity of the dom- 16 ...
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... suffer di- UL certainty . But yet , as the assistanc probabilities suggested , I think that the the delight of a picture of the nature trees . For there trees were now clot tunics , now fringed with verdant fol gave birth to the sweet ...
... suffer di- UL certainty . But yet , as the assistanc probabilities suggested , I think that the the delight of a picture of the nature trees . For there trees were now clot tunics , now fringed with verdant fol gave birth to the sweet ...
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Alanus (de Insulis). 10 Nature as artist God ? lustre suffered eclipse by the star of the virgin's beau- ty . The virgin , furthermore , on tiles , with the aid of a reed pen , called up and pictured various images s of things . Still ...
Alanus (de Insulis). 10 Nature as artist God ? lustre suffered eclipse by the star of the virgin's beau- ty . The virgin , furthermore , on tiles , with the aid of a reed pen , called up and pictured various images s of things . Still ...
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... suffer exile . Still there lurked withdrawn 25 in many woods an illusory winter , which the new- born shadiness of the forest had made with leaves . Now to her flower - child Juno gave the breasts of dew with which this nourisher first ...
... suffer exile . Still there lurked withdrawn 25 in many woods an illusory winter , which the new- born shadiness of the forest had made with leaves . Now to her flower - child Juno gave the breasts of dew with which this nourisher first ...
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... suffers a hy has recogni- emory ? Thou , ve blessed thee ess ; who , from d the Creator , y life's proper the fluctuating ure essence of ho pitied thy speak , cried amp of human te before of the more ex- arranging the protection of s of ...
... suffers a hy has recogni- emory ? Thou , ve blessed thee ess ; who , from d the Creator , y life's proper the fluctuating ure essence of ho pitied thy speak , cried amp of human te before of the more ex- arranging the protection of s 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...