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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... pride of their beams , supplanted and out- & Ishone the other nine . The first stone condemned darkness to exile by its light , and cold by its fire . On this , as the skilful deceptions of a picture mani- fested , there blazed the form ...
... pride of their beams , supplanted and out- & Ishone the other nine . The first stone condemned darkness to exile by its light , and cold by its fire . On this , as the skilful deceptions of a picture mani- fested , there blazed the form ...
Page 36
... pride , rises to the likeness of a mountain , 70 now is leveled out into a smooth plain . The fish , bound to their vow of my acknowledgment , fear greatly to detract from my rules and canons . iny order and edict , the rains are ...
... pride , rises to the likeness of a mountain , 70 now is leveled out into a smooth plain . The fish , bound to their vow of my acknowledgment , fear greatly to detract from my rules and canons . iny order and edict , the rains are ...
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... pride of unhealthy extravagance fattens , so to speak , into imposthumes of vices . 80 The former poetical discourse , then , which strayed " s into playful jest , is set before thee as a treat for thy childishness . Now let the style ...
... pride of unhealthy extravagance fattens , so to speak , into imposthumes of vices . 80 The former poetical discourse , then , which strayed " s into playful jest , is set before thee as a treat for thy childishness . Now let the style ...
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... pride lifts the minds of men into arrogance . Tainted by the fatal contagion of , this infirmity , a multitude of men , while they in- solently exalt themselves above themselves , descend in ruin beneath , detract from themselves in ...
... pride lifts the minds of men into arrogance . Tainted by the fatal contagion of , this infirmity , a multitude of men , while they in- solently exalt themselves above themselves , descend in ruin beneath , detract from themselves in ...
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... pride . These , as if they despised everything earthy , with heads thrown back look up to the things of heaven , indignantly turn aside their eyes , lift their eyebrows markedly , turn up their chins superciliously , and hold 50 their ...
... pride . These , as if they despised everything earthy , with heads thrown back look up to the things of heaven , indignantly turn aside their eyes , lift their eyebrows markedly , turn up their chins superciliously , and hold 50 their ...
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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...