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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... rejoiced in a mod- erate flame . And on this , below the steady tongue of a balance , in a truthful and yet artistic representation , 1 a pair of scales foretold the trial of weights . The third , the faces of which turned and ...
... rejoiced in a mod- erate flame . And on this , below the steady tongue of a balance , in a truthful and yet artistic representation , 1 a pair of scales foretold the trial of weights . The third , the faces of which turned and ...
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... rejoiced in a skilled workmanship , served for her mantle . Its many intricate folds showed the color of water , and on it a graphic picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into numerous species . There the ...
... rejoiced in a skilled workmanship , served for her mantle . Its many intricate folds showed the color of water , and on it a graphic picture told of 295 the nature of the watery creation , as divided into numerous species . There the ...
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... rejoiced in a plurality of wives , and beguiled the honor of marriage . The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute creation , and strove for the finer sagacity of man . The hare , seized with melancholy dread , not in sleep ...
... rejoiced in a plurality of wives , and beguiled the honor of marriage . The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute creation , and strove for the finer sagacity of man . The hare , seized with melancholy dread , not in sleep ...
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... rejoiced in such clearness of eyesight 405 that , compared with it , the other animals seemed blear- eyed . The marten and the sable , by the elegance of their fur , brought the half - completed beauty of the coverings of the other ...
... rejoiced in such clearness of eyesight 405 that , compared with it , the other animals seemed blear- eyed . The marten and the sable , by the elegance of their fur , brought the half - completed beauty of the coverings of the other ...
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... rejoiced in the profit of thy teaching , and inclined a most willing ear to 300 thy censures . ' METRE VI . Heu ! quam præcipitem passa ruinam . ' Alas ! ' she said , suffering what headlong ruin does virtue labor , lying conquered ...
... rejoiced in the profit of thy teaching , and inclined a most willing ear to 300 thy censures . ' METRE VI . Heu ! quam præcipitem passa ruinam . ' Alas ! ' she said , suffering what headlong ruin does virtue labor , lying conquered ...
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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...