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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... chastity , the love of virtue departed ? ❜ Nature weeps , character passes away , chastity is wholly banished from its former high station , and become an is orphan . The sex of active nature trembles shame- fully at the way in which ...
... chastity , the love of virtue departed ? ❜ Nature weeps , character passes away , chastity is wholly banished from its former high station , and become an is orphan . The sex of active nature trembles shame- fully at the way in which ...
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... chastity . Why do so many kisses lie untouched on maiden lips , and no one wish to gain a profit from them ? These once pressed on me would sweeten my lips with flavor , and , honeyed , would offer a honeycomb to the mouth ; the spirit ...
... chastity . Why do so many kisses lie untouched on maiden lips , and no one wish to gain a profit from them ? These once pressed on me would sweeten my lips with flavor , and , honeyed , would offer a honeycomb to the mouth ; the spirit ...
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... chastity . And al- though the joy of her loveliness was so great , yet she tried to blot out the smile of her beauty with precious tears . For a stealthy dew , sprung from the welling of her eyes , proclaimed the flow of inward 55 grief ...
... chastity . And al- though the joy of her loveliness was so great , yet she tried to blot out the smile of her beauty with precious tears . For a stealthy dew , sprung from the welling of her eyes , proclaimed the flow of inward 55 grief ...
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... chastity . The lark , like a high- souled musician , offered the lyre of its throat , not with the artfulness of study but with the mastery of nature , as one most skilled in the lore of melody ; and refin- ing its tones into finer ...
... chastity . The lark , like a high- souled musician , offered the lyre of its throat , not with the artfulness of study but with the mastery of nature , as one most skilled in the lore of melody ; and refin- ing its tones into finer ...
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... chastity herself is poisoned . Of such of these 130 men as profess the grammar of love , some embrace only the masculine gender , some the feminine , others the common or indiscriminate . Some , as of hetero- PROSE IV ] 37 The Complaint ...
... chastity herself is poisoned . Of such of these 130 men as profess the grammar of love , some embrace only the masculine gender , some the feminine , others the common or indiscriminate . Some , as of hetero- PROSE IV ] 37 The Complaint ...
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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...