The Complaint of NatureH, Holt, 1908 - 95 頁 The 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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... appearance , but rather com- manded its beauty . And a golden comb smoothed into the dance of due orderliness the gold of her hair , s and wondered to have found a countenance agreeing , for the gold of fancy imposed upon the vision the ...
... appearance , but rather com- manded its beauty . And a golden comb smoothed into the dance of due orderliness the gold of her hair , s and wondered to have found a countenance agreeing , for the gold of fancy imposed upon the vision the ...
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... appearance of ivory . The glowing fire of her cheeks , kindled with the light of roses , with soft flame cheered her face ; and this in turn chastened the pleasing warmth 35 with cool whiteness - like rose - color on fine linen . Her ...
... appearance of ivory . The glowing fire of her cheeks , kindled with the light of roses , with soft flame cheered her face ; and this in turn chastened the pleasing warmth 35 with cool whiteness - like rose - color on fine linen . Her ...
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... appearance of crystalline light , prophesied with banner of cold 110 the coming of winter . On this the old Hæmonian with diligent bending of the bow threatened wounds , yet never made good his threats . Playing upon an- other beautiful ...
... appearance of crystalline light , prophesied with banner of cold 110 the coming of winter . On this the old Hæmonian with diligent bending of the bow threatened wounds , yet never made good his threats . Playing upon an- other beautiful ...
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... appearance perpetually changed with many a different color and manifold hue . At first it start- led the sight with the white radiance of the lily Next , as if its simplicity had been thrown aside and it were striving for something ...
... appearance perpetually changed with many a different color and manifold hue . At first it start- led the sight with the white radiance of the lily Next , as if its simplicity had been thrown aside and it were striving for something ...
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... appearance foretold to ships the rage of the sea to come . There was a fish with the lower members of a siren , and with the face of a man . 315 The luna , bereft of its own light , revenged , seemingly in spite , its private injury on ...
... appearance foretold to ships the rage of the sea to come . There was a fish with the lower members of a siren , and with the face of a man . 315 The luna , bereft of its own light , revenged , seemingly in spite , its private injury on ...
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¹ Reading Alain Alain de Lille another's anvils appearance avarice Bacchus 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 fear 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 METRE Migne mind mother mystery Nature ness night numbers Old English passion peace Ph.D picture Planctu Naturæ 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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第 49 頁 - ... 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...
第 3 頁 - 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.
第 3 頁 - ... 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.
第 45 頁 - ... 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...