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... various streams , haunts in their own land of fresher wat pike , with tyrannical compulsion and ranted necessity , imprisoned its subjec 325 geon of its belly . The barbel , from its renowned , lived with the common fish or terms . The ...
... various streams , haunts in their own land of fresher wat pike , with tyrannical compulsion and ranted necessity , imprisoned its subjec 325 geon of its belly . The barbel , from its renowned , lived with the common fish or terms . The ...
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... various images s of things . Still the pictures would not keep closely to the 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 ...
... various images s of things . Still the pictures would not keep closely to the 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 ...
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... various orbits , serve my majesty . The planets , according to the going forth of my command and order , restrain the rapid motion of the firmament , going to their rising with contrary steps , and after- ward repairing to the place of ...
... various orbits , serve my majesty . The planets , according to the going forth of my command and order , restrain the rapid motion of the firmament , going to their rising with contrary steps , and after- ward repairing to the place of ...
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... various s The terrestrial animals beneath my management do not profess activitie the sovereignty which is over their 80 earth now whitens with the hoarine is fringed with flowery vegetation . has grown its leafy hair , now is sh razor ...
... various s The terrestrial animals beneath my management do not profess activitie the sovereignty which is over their 80 earth now whitens with the hoarine is fringed with flowery vegetation . has grown its leafy hair , now is sh razor ...
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... various kinds of things , and these , though separated by the strife of different natures , He governed with harmony of proper order , furnished with laws , and bound with ordinances . And thus He 330 united with mutual and fraternal ...
... various kinds of things , and these , though separated by the strife of different natures , He governed with harmony of proper order , furnished with laws , and bound with ordinances . And thus He 330 united with mutual and fraternal ...
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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...