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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... heavens , and appeared , hastening her approach to me . Her hair , which shone not with borrowed light but with its 5 own , and which displayed the likeness of rays , not by semblance , but by native clearness surpassing nature , showed ...
... heavens , and appeared , hastening her approach to me . Her hair , which shone not with borrowed light but with its 5 own , and which displayed the likeness of rays , not by semblance , but by native clearness surpassing nature , showed ...
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... heavens . Here the tunic had undergone a rending of its parts , and showed abuses and injuries . But elsewhere its parts were united in unbroken elegance , and suffered no discord nor division . On these the magic of a picture gave 350 ...
... heavens . Here the tunic had undergone a rending of its parts , and showed abuses and injuries . But elsewhere its parts were united in unbroken elegance , and suffered no discord nor division . On these the magic of a picture gave 350 ...
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... heaven . The activities of lust , on the other hand , wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament of reason , turn and slip down into the decline of things of earth . Now the latter , lust , leads the human 95 mind into the ruin ...
... heaven . The activities of lust , on the other hand , wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament of reason , turn and slip down into the decline of things of earth . Now the latter , lust , leads the human 95 mind into the ruin ...
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... heavens , as in the citadel of a human city , resides imperially the everlasting Ruler . From Him eternally has gone forth the command that every individual thing should 125 be known and written in the book of His providence In the air ...
... heavens , as in the citadel of a human city , resides imperially the everlasting Ruler . From Him eternally has gone forth the command that every individual thing should 125 be known and written in the book of His providence In the air ...
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... heaven . Now , although it is not part of my office to treat of what has been said , yet I 255 have allowed my discourse to stray thither , that thou mightest not doubt that , compared with the super- lative might of God , my power is ...
... heaven . Now , although it is not part of my office to treat of what has been said , yet I 255 have allowed my discourse to stray thither , that thou mightest not doubt that , compared with the super- lative might of God , my power is ...
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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...