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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... showed on a starry body the head of a virgin . Twin tresses , flowing loosely , neither forsook the parts above nor yet disdained to smile upon the ground with a kiss . The line of a slender necklace , crossing itself obliquely ...
... showed on a starry body the head of a virgin . Twin tresses , flowing loosely , neither forsook the parts above nor yet disdained to smile upon the ground with a kiss . The line of a slender necklace , crossing itself obliquely ...
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... showed the well - known marks of his head , and was seen thirsting for battle . Another , of which the lustre . was exceptional , blessed the companies of its fellows with grace and kindliness . On this a ram gloried in 120 the nobility ...
... showed the well - known marks of his head , and was seen thirsting for battle . Another , of which the lustre . was exceptional , blessed the companies of its fellows with grace and kindliness . On this a ram gloried in 120 the nobility ...
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... showed , a virgin , by her excelling fair- 130 ness , like an Astræa rivaled the stars . The second neither wantoned in excessive splendor nor begged the sparks of a meagre glory , but rejoiced in a mod- erate flame . And on this ...
... showed , a virgin , by her excelling fair- 130 ness , like an Astræa rivaled the stars . The second neither wantoned in excessive splendor nor begged the sparks of a meagre glory , but rejoiced in a mod- erate flame . And on this ...
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... 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 whale fought with cliffs , and rushed on and rammed the forts of ships with the rock of ...
... 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 whale fought with cliffs , and rushed on and rammed the forts of ships with the rock of ...
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... showed abuses and injuries . But elsewhere its parts were united in unbroken elegance , and suffered no discord nor division . On these the magic of a picture gave 350 life to the animals of the earth . There the elephant , of ...
... showed abuses and injuries . But elsewhere its parts were united in unbroken elegance , and suffered no discord nor division . On these the magic of a picture gave 350 life to the animals of the earth . There the elephant , of ...
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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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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...