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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... wandering through the woody regions . The horned owl , prophet of misery , sang psalms of future deep sorrowing . The night owl was so gross with the dregs of ugliness that you would think that Nature had dozed at its making . The crow ...
... wandering through the woody regions . The horned owl , prophet of misery , sang psalms of future deep sorrowing . The night owl was so gross with the dregs of ugliness that you would think that Nature had dozed at its making . The crow ...
第 13 頁
... wandering , and made with mud under a beam its nest and home . The night- ingale , renewing the complaint of its ravishment , and making music of harmonious sweetness , gave excuse 280 for the fall of its chastity . The lark , like a ...
... wandering , and made with mud under a beam its nest and home . The night- ingale , renewing the complaint of its ravishment , and making music of harmonious sweetness , gave excuse 280 for the fall of its chastity . The lark , like a ...
第 26 頁
... wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament of reason , turn and slip down into the decline of things of earth . Now the latter , lust , leads the human 95 mind into the ruin of vices , so that it perishes ; the former , reason ...
... wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament of reason , turn and slip down into the decline of things of earth . Now the latter , lust , leads the human 95 mind into the ruin of vices , so that it perishes ; the former , reason ...
第 36 頁
... wandering . At my mere1 will and wish it is now vexed into the wrath of the storm , now returns to the peace of tranquillity , now , borne aloft by its swelling pride , rises to the likeness of a mountain , 70 now is leveled out into a ...
... wandering . At my mere1 will and wish it is now vexed into the wrath of the storm , now returns to the peace of tranquillity , now , borne aloft by its swelling pride , rises to the likeness of a mountain , 70 now is leveled out into a ...
第 52 頁
... wandering influence to such degree that the active voice should become able by a usurping assumption to cross over into the passive , or the latter by an abandonment of its peculiar nature to turn into the 115 active , or , retaining ...
... wandering influence to such degree that the active voice should become able by a usurping assumption to cross over into the passive , or the latter by an abandonment of its peculiar nature to turn into the 115 active , or , retaining ...
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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...