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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... fire of her cheeks , kindled with the light of roses , with soft flame cheered her face ; and this in turn chastened the pleasing warmth 35 with cool whiteness - like rose - color on fine linen . Her smooth chin , fairer than ...
... fire of her cheeks , kindled with the light of roses , with soft flame cheered her face ; and this in turn chastened the pleasing warmth 35 with cool whiteness - like rose - color on fine linen . Her smooth chin , fairer than ...
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... fire . On this , as the skilful deceptions of a picture mani- fested , there blazed the form of a lion . The second , which was yet not inferior to the first in light , flashed s in a more prominent position in this same part of the ...
... fire . On this , as the skilful deceptions of a picture mani- fested , there blazed the form of a lion . The second , which was yet not inferior to the first in light , flashed s in a more prominent position in this same part of the ...
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... ruby ; and it petitioned that it 195 should be re - adorned with the fires of its brother , and wear the beauties of that light renewed . Now it re- paired the losses of its wasted round by fixed and 10 [ PROSE I The Complaint of Nature.
... ruby ; and it petitioned that it 195 should be re - adorned with the fires of its brother , and wear the beauties of that light renewed . Now it re- paired the losses of its wasted round by fixed and 10 [ PROSE I The Complaint of Nature.
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... a hail of flowers , rained privet - bloom , and ordered the blossoming snows to be in the meadows . The spring , like a lively fuller , refreshed the garments of the fields , and with the fire of its METRE III ] 21 The Complaint of Nature.
... a hail of flowers , rained privet - bloom , and ordered the blossoming snows to be in the meadows . The spring , like a lively fuller , refreshed the garments of the fields , and with the fire of its METRE III ] 21 The Complaint of Nature.
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Alanus (de Insulis). of the fields , and with the fire of its purple kindled the dresses of the flowers . It gave back foliage to the trees which the winter had shorn , thus restoring that vesture which the other had formerly taken away ...
Alanus (de Insulis). of the fields , and with the fire of its purple kindled the dresses of the flowers . It gave back foliage to the trees which the winter had shorn , thus restoring that vesture which the other had formerly taken away ...
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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...