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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... sleep to our eyes . For 150 since it is that moderate listening keeps away discontent , so excess brings on weariness ; and the drowsy hear- ing faded , tired with the full and excessive melody . These seven stones , though not held ...
... sleep to our eyes . For 150 since it is that moderate listening keeps away discontent , so excess brings on weariness ; and the drowsy hear- ing faded , tired with the full and excessive melody . These seven stones , though not held ...
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... sleep the eclipsed lamps of its fellows . Now in the regal authority of majesty it ordered the others to make way , and now brought to the disturbance a quiet power . Then with 180 a sapphire came an amethyst , pressing on the former's ...
... sleep the eclipsed lamps of its fellows . Now in the regal authority of majesty it ordered the others to make way , and now brought to the disturbance a quiet power . Then with 180 a sapphire came an amethyst , pressing on the former's ...
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... sleep in a virgin's bosom , met in sleep the dream of death by enemies . The lion murmured songs of its roar- 1 Migne has ab hostibus somnum mortis incurrebat , ' met through enemies the sleep of death . ' A. is to the same effect . ing ...
... sleep in a virgin's bosom , met in sleep the dream of death by enemies . The lion murmured songs of its roar- 1 Migne has ab hostibus somnum mortis incurrebat , ' met through enemies the sleep of death . ' A. is to the same effect . ing ...
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... sleep , but in the stupor of fear , dreamed , terrified , of the approach of dogs . The rabbit , which tempers the wrath of our cold climate by its pelt , fought off 400 the attacks of our hunger with its own flesh . The ermine ...
... sleep , but in the stupor of fear , dreamed , terrified , of the approach of dogs . The rabbit , which tempers the wrath of our cold climate by its pelt , fought off 400 the attacks of our hunger with its own flesh . The ermine ...
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... sleep . By the glory of its appearance the fountain itself asked that tired man take draughts of it . SS PROSE III . Hac igitur amanantis temporis juventute . But the virgin was not gladdened by the acclama- tions of any of these things ...
... sleep . By the glory of its appearance the fountain itself asked that tired man take draughts of it . SS PROSE III . Hac igitur amanantis temporis juventute . But the virgin was not gladdened by the acclama- tions of any of these things ...
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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...