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... wealth of its own clear light . On this , as a truthful 95 picture asserted , the mythical children of Leda ad- vanced and welcomed each other with mutual em- braces . In like manner , three stones , whose power was of second degree ...
... wealth of its own clear light . On this , as a truthful 95 picture asserted , the mythical children of Leda ad- vanced and welcomed each other with mutual em- braces . In like manner , three stones , whose power was of second degree ...
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... wealth of knowledge . W then , I have blessed both , that neith over its own poverty , or complain at fluence . And just as this marriage is brou my consent , so is the same marital according to my decision . Not in t but also in all ...
... wealth of knowledge . W then , I have blessed both , that neith over its own poverty , or complain at fluence . And just as this marriage is brou my consent , so is the same marital according to my decision . Not in t but also in all ...
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... wealth of fo they are situated in sheer , naked , and lo Now this pestilence , not contented w humility , extends itself quite deeply am These , degrading the office of baptism , b base font of spice salmon , pike , and othe 105 are ...
... wealth of fo they are situated in sheer , naked , and lo Now this pestilence , not contented w humility , extends itself quite deeply am These , degrading the office of baptism , b base font of spice salmon , pike , and othe 105 are ...
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... the thirst . So the satiated the drunken thirsts , the one with plenty lo idual covets everything , and by that v ness is made poor , and stays wealthy 1 Reading manere , with Migne . 20 needy within . The wretch has nothing when he.
... the thirst . So the satiated the drunken thirsts , the one with plenty lo idual covets everything , and by that v ness is made poor , and stays wealthy 1 Reading manere , with Migne . 20 needy within . The wretch has nothing when he.
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... wealth with Titus , disputes over his image with Nar- cissus , thunders with Turnus in courage , rejoices with Hercules in strength , is drunken with the poetic nectar 90 of Homer , with Plato examines philosophy face to face , with ...
... wealth with Titus , disputes over his image with Nar- cissus , thunders with Turnus in courage , rejoices with Hercules in strength , is drunken with the poetic nectar 90 of Homer , with Plato examines philosophy face to face , with ...
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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...