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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... 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 diadem , and seemed to look down on the other ...
... 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 diadem , and seemed to look down on the other ...
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... picture asserted , the mythical children of Leda ad- vanced and welcomed each other with mutual em- braces . In like manner , three stones , whose power was of second degree , had set their thrones in an opposite part . Of these the ...
... picture asserted , the mythical children of Leda ad- vanced and welcomed each other with mutual em- braces . In like manner , three stones , whose power was of second degree , had set their thrones in an opposite part . Of these the ...
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... picture fancied to the sight , was being held a parliament of the living creation . There the eagle , first assuming youth , then age , and finally returning to the first , changed from Nestor to Adonis . There the hawk , chief of the ...
... picture fancied to the sight , was being held a parliament of the living creation . There the eagle , first assuming youth , then age , and finally returning to the first , changed from Nestor to Adonis . There the hawk , chief of the ...
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... picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into numerous species . There the whale fought with cliffs , and rushed on and rammed the forts of ships with the rock of its hugely towering body . The sea - dog ...
... picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into numerous species . There the whale fought with cliffs , and rushed on and rammed the forts of ships with the rock of its hugely towering body . The sea - dog ...
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... pictures , finely drawn manner of sculpture , seemed A damask tunic , also , pictured with embroidered 340 work ... picture gave 350 life to the animals of the earth . There the elephant , of prodigious size , came forward in the ...
... pictures , finely drawn manner of sculpture , seemed A damask tunic , also , pictured with embroidered 340 work ... picture gave 350 life to the animals of the earth . There the elephant , of prodigious size , came forward in 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...