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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... reasons for this translation . The importance of Alain's work lies wholly in what it prompted ; by itself it would have long since been justly forgotten . The theologian whose great stores of recondite learning made him the ' Doctor ...
... reasons for this translation . The importance of Alain's work lies wholly in what it prompted ; by itself it would have long since been justly forgotten . The theologian whose great stores of recondite learning made him the ' Doctor ...
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... reason pen- 345 etrated the secrets of the 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 ...
... reason pen- 345 etrated the secrets of the 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 ...
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... reason of man , but also made the celestials forget their godship , came forth from the places of streams , and , like bearers of 6s tribute , presented little gifts of aromatic nectar to the coming queen . When the virgin had ...
... reason of man , but also made the celestials forget their godship , came forth from the places of streams , and , like bearers of 6s tribute , presented little gifts of aromatic nectar to the coming queen . When the virgin had ...
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... reason has placed a cloud on thine understanding , has forced thy spirit into exile , as has dulled the power of thy feeling , has made thy mind to sicken , so that not only thine intellect is cheat- ed out of its quick recognition of ...
... reason has placed a cloud on thine understanding , has forced thy spirit into exile , as has dulled the power of thy feeling , has made thy mind to sicken , so that not only thine intellect is cheat- ed out of its quick recognition of ...
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... reason , to set aside by the winnowing fan of its discrimination the 60 emptiness of falsehood from the serious matters of truth . Through me , also , the power of memory serves thee , hoarding in the treasure - chest of its ...
... reason , to set aside by the winnowing fan of its discrimination the 60 emptiness of falsehood from the serious matters of truth . Through me , also , the power of memory serves thee , hoarding in the treasure - chest of its ...
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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...