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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... another's light , begging the aid of lustre from the ruby . Within the presence of the latter's radiance it either increased in the growth of its beam of light , or reached its full and shrank , as if it worshiped the ruby ; and it ...
... another's light , begging the aid of lustre from the ruby . Within the presence of the latter's radiance it either increased in the growth of its beam of light , or reached its full and shrank , as if it worshiped the ruby ; and it ...
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... another's reputation , feel the first disparagement of their own good character . Another's prosperity is judged by them unfavorable , another's adversity fa- vorable . They are sad at another's joy , are joyous at another's sadness ...
... another's reputation , feel the first disparagement of their own good character . Another's prosperity is judged by them unfavorable , another's adversity fa- vorable . They are sad at another's joy , are joyous at another's sadness ...
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Alanus (de Insulis). sider his riches in the riches of another , let him mourn his poverty in the poverty of another . If thou shouldst see another's good name honored and celebrated , do thou by no disparagement make this festival of ...
Alanus (de Insulis). sider his riches in the riches of another , let him mourn his poverty in the poverty of another . If thou shouldst see another's good name honored and celebrated , do thou by no disparagement make this festival of ...
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... another's countenance , though his tongue 190 should be resplendent with the silvery pearls of elo- quence , though the chamber of his mind should shine with the jewels of the virtues , yet if the artisan of blandish- ment does not ...
... another's countenance , though his tongue 190 should be resplendent with the silvery pearls of elo- quence , though the chamber of his mind should shine with the jewels of the virtues , yet if the artisan of blandish- ment does not ...
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... another's happiness first find himself an enemy to himself . Let him who hunts gifts from 240 the rich by the hypocrisy of flattery be cheated by a reward of deceptive worth . ' After Genius , in the utterance of this anathema , had ...
... another's happiness first find himself an enemy to himself . Let him who hunts gifts from 240 the rich by the hypocrisy of flattery be cheated by a reward of deceptive worth . ' After Genius , in the utterance of this anathema , had ...
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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...