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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... proclaimed the flow of inward 55 grief , and her very face , cast to earth with chaste 50 modesty , told of some injury done to the virgin her- self . The sparkling crown of a regal diadem , 6 [ PROSE I The Complaint of Nature.
... proclaimed the flow of inward 55 grief , and her very face , cast to earth with chaste 50 modesty , told of some injury done to the virgin her- self . The sparkling crown of a regal diadem , 6 [ PROSE I The Complaint of Nature.
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... diadem . Others , which were fixed , maintained the vigil of their sparkling , and were constant watchers . Among these a circle , shining in the likeness of the zočiacal curve , and glittering with chains of precious stones , cut ...
... diadem . Others , which were fixed , maintained the vigil of their sparkling , and were constant watchers . Among these a circle , shining in the likeness of the zočiacal curve , and glittering with chains of precious stones , cut ...
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... diadem itself by any bands of connection , yet never 1ss deserted their fellowship of the upper stones . The highest was a diamond . This , more economical of movement than the others , but more spendthrift of ease , delayed very long ...
... diadem itself by any bands of connection , yet never 1ss deserted their fellowship of the upper stones . The highest was a diamond . This , more economical of movement than the others , but more spendthrift of ease , delayed very long ...
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... diadem by all these glories revealed the likeness of the firmament . A garment , woven from silky wool and covered with many colors , was as the virgin's robe of state . 205 Its appearance perpetually changed with many a different color ...
... diadem by all these glories revealed the likeness of the firmament . A garment , woven from silky wool and covered with many colors , was as the virgin's robe of state . 205 Its appearance perpetually changed with many a different color ...
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... diadem , which did not redeem pov- 160 erty of material by pre - eminence of workmanship , or atone for meanness of workmanship by fineness of material , but which showed in both a supreme mon- archy without the pain of that absolute ...
... diadem , which did not redeem pov- 160 erty of material by pre - eminence of workmanship , or atone for meanness of workmanship by fineness of material , but which showed in both a supreme mon- archy without the pain of that absolute ...
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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...