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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第 24 頁
... thee with such abundant favor and kindness ; who , from thine early age , as vicegerent of God the Creator , 35 have ordered by sure management thy life's proper course ; who in time past brought the fluctuating material of thy body out ...
... thee with such abundant favor and kindness ; who , from thine early age , as vicegerent of God the Creator , 35 have ordered by sure management thy life's proper course ; who in time past brought the fluctuating material of thy body out ...
第 25 頁
... thee , hoarding in the treasure - chest of its recollection the glorious wealth of knowledge . With these gifts , then , I have blessed both , that neither might groan 65 over its own poverty , or complain at the other's af- fluence ...
... thee , hoarding in the treasure - chest of its recollection the glorious wealth of knowledge . With these gifts , then , I have blessed both , that neither might groan 65 over its own poverty , or complain at the other's af- fluence ...
第 31 頁
... thee , and without any questioning doubt , 165 a close knowledge of me . And - to speak more in- timately — I am Nature , who have sought after thee for my presence with the gift of my esteem , and thought thee worthy to bless with my ...
... thee , and without any questioning doubt , 165 a close knowledge of me . And - to speak more in- timately — I am Nature , who have sought after thee for my presence with the gift of my esteem , and thought thee worthy to bless with my ...
第 38 頁
... thee as with my friend and confidant , lay down my sad burden of the accursed vices of men , and with thee determine what answering punishment should be given to such rebellion in crime , in order that the sting of the punishment might ...
... thee as with my friend and confidant , lay down my sad burden of the accursed vices of men , and with thee determine what answering punishment should be given to such rebellion in crime , in order that the sting of the punishment might ...
第 41 頁
... thee of a certain matter , not merely in query but in lament . ' To these words she replied : ' Have I not before this extended to thee free reins 250 to ask without any hindrance or restraint by me ? ' ' I marvel , ' then I said ...
... thee of a certain matter , not merely in query but in lament . ' To these words she replied : ' Have I not before this extended to thee free reins 250 to ask without any hindrance or restraint by me ? ' ' I marvel , ' then I said ...
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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...