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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... continual circling , a marvelous sort of play and pleasing dance . Nor did this dance lack the sweetness of melodious 145 sound . Now it frolicked in little notes , now it quickened into tones rich and swelling , and now , with stronger ...
... continual circling , a marvelous sort of play and pleasing dance . Nor did this dance lack the sweetness of melodious 145 sound . Now it frolicked in little notes , now it quickened into tones rich and swelling , and now , with stronger ...
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... continual hostility between lust and reason . For the activity of reason , taking its rise from a celestial source , passes through the low levels 9 ° of earth , and , watchful of heavenly things , turns again to heaven . The activities ...
... continual hostility between lust and reason . For the activity of reason , taking its rise from a celestial source , passes through the low levels 9 ° of earth , and , watchful of heavenly things , turns again to heaven . The activities ...
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... continual folly . Furthermore , just as it has been my purpose to attack 175 with bitter hostility1 certain practices of grammar and logic , and exclude them from the schools of Venus , so I have forbidden to the arts of Cypris those ...
... continual folly . Furthermore , just as it has been my purpose to attack 175 with bitter hostility1 certain practices of grammar and logic , and exclude them from the schools of Venus , so I have forbidden to the arts of Cypris those ...
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... continual de- traction she destroys the minds of men . She is the worm because of whose bite health of mind sickens and falls into disease , soundness of mind rots into decay , " rest of mind is abandoned for trouble . She is the guest ...
... continual de- traction she destroys the minds of men . She is the worm because of whose bite health of mind sickens and falls into disease , soundness of mind rots into decay , " rest of mind is abandoned for trouble . She is the guest ...
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... continual needs of poverty . Let him who , exalted on the precipice of 235 pride , throws out a spirit of arrogance , fall ingloriously into the valley of dejected humility . Let him who envies and gnaws like the moth of detraction at ...
... continual needs of poverty . Let him who , exalted on the precipice of 235 pride , throws out a spirit of arrogance , fall ingloriously into the valley of dejected humility . Let him who envies and gnaws like the moth of detraction at ...
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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...