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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... 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 and manifold hue . At first it start- led the sight with the white ...
... 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 and manifold hue . At first it start- led the sight with the white ...
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... ermine , scorning to be wedded to a more humble garment , laughed or wept in a splendid marriage with lustrous color . The beaver , lest it should suffer di- vision of its very body by an enemy , cut 16 [ PROSE I The Complaint of Nature.
... ermine , scorning to be wedded to a more humble garment , laughed or wept in a splendid marriage with lustrous color . The beaver , lest it should suffer di- vision of its very body by an enemy , cut 16 [ PROSE I The Complaint of Nature.
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... garments of flowers does the graciousness of the spendthrift spring ennoble the meadows , some showing pure white , others purple , being woven by the skilful right hand of Favonius . PROSE II . Hæc vestium ornamenta , quamvis plenis ...
... garments of flowers does the graciousness of the spendthrift spring ennoble the meadows , some showing pure white , others purple , being woven by the skilful right hand of Favonius . PROSE II . Hæc vestium ornamenta , quamvis plenis ...
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... garment of 40 delight , and ordered her to meet the coming queen . The air put away the tearful visage of clouds , and with the favor of a clear face smiled upon the maiden's approach . Tossed at first in the madness of the north wind's ...
... garment of 40 delight , and ordered her to meet the coming queen . The air put away the tearful visage of clouds , and with the favor of a clear face smiled upon the maiden's approach . Tossed at first in the madness of the north wind's ...
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... garments for the trees . 75 These lowered their leaves , and with a sort of bowed veneration , as if they were bending their knees , offered her their prayers . Out of them came maidens who enrich the treasures of the actual day by the ...
... garments for the trees . 75 These lowered their leaves , and with a sort of bowed veneration , as if they were bending their knees , offered her their prayers . Out of them came maidens who enrich the treasures of the actual day by the ...
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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...