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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... kisses , all given over to the mouth , and play on lips with itself . So that until I should in this way die , my course finished , I , as another self , would in these kisses enjoy a happy life to the ut- most . Not only does the ...
... kisses , all given over to the mouth , and play on lips with itself . So that until I should in this way die , my course finished , I , as another self , would in these kisses enjoy a happy life to the ut- most . Not only does the ...
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... kiss . The line of a slender necklace , crossing itself obliquely , divided the strife of her hair ; nor was this ever a blemish in her appearance , but rather com- manded its beauty . And a golden comb smoothed into the dance of due ...
... kiss . The line of a slender necklace , crossing itself obliquely , divided the strife of her hair ; nor was this ever a blemish in her appearance , but rather com- manded its beauty . And a golden comb smoothed into the dance of due ...
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... kisses . Her teeth , by some harmony of color , had the appearance of ivory . The glowing 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 ...
... kisses . Her teeth , by some harmony of color , had the appearance of ivory . The glowing 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 ...
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... kiss . The earth , lately stripped of its adorn- 70 ments by the thieving winter , through the generosity of spring donned a purple tunic of flowers , that it might 1 Reading amplius , with Migne . not , inglorious in ragged vestments ...
... kiss . The earth , lately stripped of its adorn- 70 ments by the thieving winter , through the generosity of spring donned a purple tunic of flowers , that it might 1 Reading amplius , with Migne . not , inglorious in ragged vestments ...
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... dizzy steps with the comfort of her supporting hands , and , encircling me in her embrace and sweet- ening my lips with modest kisses , made me well , who 10 15 was weak and sick with stupor , by the PROSE III ] 23 The Complaint of Nature.
... dizzy steps with the comfort of her supporting hands , and , encircling me in her embrace and sweet- ening my lips with modest kisses , made me well , who 10 15 was weak and sick with stupor , by the PROSE III ] 23 The Complaint of Nature.
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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...