The Complaint of NatureThe complaint of nature, Yale studies in English, v. 36 (1908), Translation of De planctu natura. by Douglas M. Moffat. Pagination preserved in etext form. |
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... notes , and several from the text of Migne in the Patrologia Latina , Vol . 210 ( Paris , 1855 ) , which Wright does not note , have been adopted , and a few emendations have been made . To all such changes attention is called in the ...
... notes , and several from the text of Migne in the Patrologia Latina , Vol . 210 ( Paris , 1855 ) , which Wright does not note , have been adopted , and a few emendations have been made . To all such changes attention is called in the ...
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... notes , now it quickened into tones rich and swelling , and now , with stronger trump , advanced into the full burst of har- mony , the depth of which stirred delight in our ears , and brought the first joys of sleep to our eyes . For ...
... notes , now it quickened into tones rich and swelling , and now , with stronger trump , advanced into the full burst of har- mony , the depth of which stirred delight in our ears , and brought the first joys of sleep to our eyes . For ...
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... notes 285 into inseparable chains . The bat , bird of double sex , held the rank of cipher among small birds . These living things , although as it were in allegory moving there , seemed to exist actually . Fine linen , with its white ...
... notes 285 into inseparable chains . The bat , bird of double sex , held the rank of cipher among small birds . These living things , although as it were in allegory moving there , seemed to exist actually . Fine linen , with its white ...
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... 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 ? Sometimes poets combine historical ...
... 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 ? Sometimes poets combine historical ...
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... note that certain daughters of the old Idololatria , who was in time past com- pletely crushed , make the attempt to renew the power of their mother in the immediate present , and , by certain magic songs , to revive her from the dead ...
... note that certain daughters of the old Idololatria , who was in time past com- pletely crushed , make the attempt to renew the power of their mother in the immediate present , and , by certain magic songs , to revive her from the dead ...
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¹ Reading Alain Alain de Lille another's anvils appearance avarice Bacchus banished beauty Ben Jonson birth body Charybdis chastity cithara clothed cloud coin color command concubinage countenance Cupid Cypris delight diadem divine dost earth edited with Introduction Emending Ennius evil face faith false falsehood Favonius favor flattery flatulence flood flowers garments gave gender Generosity Genius gifts glory Glossary grief guile hair hand harmonious head heaven Hippolytus honey honor human Hymen Jonson kiss labor light lust lyre madness majesty marriage marvelous matter METRE Migne mind mother mystery Nature ness night numbers Old English passion peace Ph.D picture Planctu plebeian poverty praise predicate pride PROSE reason rejoiced riches scorned Scylla seemed shine shipwreck silence sleep solemn song sorrow speech splendor stars stones stray suffer sweet tears thee thine things thou tunic Tyndaris Venus vices virgin virtue wandering wanton wealth wisdom Zephyrus
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Page 49 - ... if it does not transgress the determined boundaries of the dual activity, or its heat boil to too great a degree. But if its spark shoots into a flame, or its little spring rises to a torrent, the rankness of the growth demands the pruning-knife, and the swelling «• and excess requires...
Page 3 - Natwa, in order to call attention to the prevalence of homosexual feeling; he also associated the neglect of women with sodomy. "Man is made woman," he writes; "he blackens the honor of his sex, the craft of magic Venus makes him of double gender"; nobly beautiful youths have "turned their hammers of love to the office of anvils," and "many kisses lie untouched on maiden lips.
Page 3 - ... orphan. 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 45 - ... in the outskirt world I stationed Venus, who is skilled in — the knowledge of making, as under-deputy of my work, in order that she, un^der my judgment and guidance, and with the assisting activity of her husband Hymen and her son Cupid, by laboring at the various...