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3002 mI, 4 | Paris with Paris devises unspeakable and monstrous acts. Not
3003 pIII, 29 | all these things resounds unspeakably the working of my power.
3004 mV, 47 | even delightful crime, unstable play, fixed delusion, 1
3005 pIV, 46 | is inextricable I shall untangle, albeit this, which is not
3006 pV, 57 | miserably shipwrecked by unthought peril in the depths of black
3007 pIV, 44 | night of clouds buries the untired day of open heaven, where
3008 mI, 4 | Why do so many kisses lie untouched on maiden lips, and no one
3009 pVI, 65 | two-handed sword of logic the untrue from the true; with Zeno
3010 pVI, 61 | were the mystery of an - unutterable godship. And, then, that
3011 pIII, 31 | conversation. ~When Nature unveiled to me through these words
3012 mVIII, 76 | vision, lest it hunt too unvirtuously beyond the reach of the
3013 pI, 9 | splendor, wore the grace of unwearying beauty. On this, as the
3014 pII, 21 | native upper world, was unwilling to be denied the presence
3015 pIII, 29 | divulges secrets to the unworthy. But lest I should seem,
3016 pV, 49 | did not drive me to these upbraiding and reproving censures,
3017 mIV, 33 | making bright the seat of our upper-air, and filling the sky with
3018 pVI, 62 | collecting stomach, they urge the purse to disgorge its
3019 mVI, 58(2) | Reading Sic urtica, with Migne.
3020 | used
3021 pI, 7 | starting-place, seemed almost a useless motion. Some of these gems
3022 pV, 54 | of Cypris those metonymic uses of rhetoricians which Mother
3023 pII, 19 | countenance gladder than usual, disclosed and poured out
3024 pVII, 74 | subjects? For though speech is usually the faithful interpreter
3025 pVI, 61 | sufficient, though they usurp the attractions of learning,
3026 pV, 52 | should become able by a usurping assumption to cross over
3027 pI, 15 | by nature by a manifold usury. The camel, misshapen in
3028 mVII, 68 | possessions, or wealth, or the utility of a rich man, if his conquering
3029 mI, 4 | enjoy a happy life to the utmost. Not only does the adulterous
3030 mVII, 67 | adversity and loss with utter consternation. Thus the
3031 pIX, 95 | After Genius, in the utterance of this anathema, had made
3032 pVIII, 83 | condemned to banishment and uttermost destruction. To meet her,
3033 mII, 18 | proclaimed the fields and the valley-depths. The thyme, contentious
3034 mVII, 67 | it, and claims the whole value of the money for itself.
3035 pII, 19 | keep closely but quickly vanish d to the material beneath
3036 pIX, 91 | momentarily, and as quickly vanished, so as to elude our scrutiny
3037 pVI, 62 | it away, nevertheless it vanishes more ignobly in the baser
3038 Pre, 2 | 1872) ; but several of the variants which he notes, and several
3039 mIV, 33 | face of the heavens, and variest its appearance, and grantest
3040 pVII, 72 | decency sinks into a gilded varnish of hypocrisy. This disease
3041 pIV, 41 | fixing between them and her a vast gulf of dissension, Lay
3042 pIV, 36 | is fringed with flowery vegetation. The forest now has grown
3043 pV, 57 | the ruinous rush of the vehement flood, become stuck in the
3044 pVI, 63(1) | Omitting vel desidiae, with B. and Migne.
3045 pVIII, 82(3)| Reading venerat in patronum, with Migne. ~
3046 pIII, 31 | nor to ascribe it to the venoms of ingratitude. But rather
3047 pIII, 27 | far astray, which 1 would venture to raise the theme to the
3048 pVII, 69 | by the single remedy of verbosity present the courageous front
3049 pI, 17 | tunics, now fringed with verdant foliage; now they gave birth
3050 Pre, 2 | the original which are in verse. ~I have been unable to
3051 mI, 3 | risus, in luctus gaudia verto. ~I change laughter to tears,
3052 pIV, 38 | miserable sport below its vestibule. Against all these justice
3053 pIV, 34 | quaestionis solutionem in vestibulo excubare demonstrans. ~Then
3054 pII, 18 | PROSE II. ~Haec vestium ornamenta quamvis plenis
3055 pIX, 94 | ornaments of the sacerdotal vestment, called out from the secret
3056 pII, 21 | not, inglorious in ragged vestments, appear to the young virgin
3057 pVIII, 77(2)| Reading vetustatis, with Migne.
3058 pIX, 89 | persistence of his evil vexation to detract from thy glory.
3059 pIV, 36 | will and wish it is now vexed into the wrath of the storm,
3060 pIII, 24 | from thine early age, as viceregent of God the Creator, have
3061 pIII, 26 | reward. For prizes won by victories shine more fairly than other
3062 pVI, 66 | exile, yet do thou with victorious spirit throw down and trample
3063 pIII, 26 | down lust to defeat, the victory will not be without its
3064 pI, 17(1) | Reading videntium, with B.
3065 mII, 18 | jealous of the other blooms, vied with its companion flower,
3066 mV, 47 | fixed delusion, 1 weak vigor, changeable firmness, mover
3067 pIV, 37 | and, concluding with a viler error, ended by the miscreated
3068 mIII, 22 | spring; in which the budded vine embraces its elm's wedded
3069 mIII, 22(1) | Lat. violae speculuim. ~
3070 pIV, 35 | friendship, and does not dare to violate its solemn obligations of ~
3071 pVIII, 79 | Lucretia set off the loss of violated chastity by the gain of
3072 pVI, 64 | of Amphion, the muse of Virgil, are smothered by its voice.
3073 pVIII, 79 | the bolt and bar of her virginity should be broken through,
3074 pIV, 34 | PROSE IV. ~Praefala igitur virgo hujus quaestionis solutionem
3075 pII, 20 | air put away the tearful visage of clouds, and with the
3076 pVII, 69 | quomodo tenacis avaritiae viscus. ~There thou hast in what
3077 pIII, 30 | see the things that are visible, she comprehends in their
3078 pIX, 95 | With the mirror of this visionary sight taken away, the previous
3079 mIII, 22 | blossom ; in which Phoebus visits the earth, groaning with
3080 mIX, 87(4) | Reading vocem, with Migne.
3081 mIX, 87 | as they were in the deep volume 3 of their hollow air, with
3082 pIX, 92 | Paris was subdued by the voluptuousness of carnal love. There Sinon'
3083 pVI, 61 | learning, swallow also, in the voracious Charybdis of their gullet,
3084 mVIII, 75 | Nec te gulosae Scylla voraginis mergat. ~'To the end, she
3085 pIV, 36 | The fish, bound to their vow of my acknowledgment, fear
3086 pI, 5(3) | Reading vultui erat detriments, sed praerat
3087 pVIII, 78 | marvelous grafting, the rose vying with the lily. Her eyes
3088 mV, 48 | and pay him his dues. He wages war against all; his rule
3089 pVIII, 85 | fully, in the form of a loud wail, of the shipwreck of the
3090 pI, 6 | finely drawn curve of her waist, which had the mark of due
3091 mVII, 68 | handmaid is compelled to wait upon it. Thus the eye of
3092 mVII, 68 | with reason as its master, walks upon the wealth which it
3093 pVIII, 79 | was defended opposed by a wall of constancy, and how it
3094 pIX, 89 | does not allow thy will to wander from the consideration of
3095 pVI, 64 | stars, to track the free wanderings of the planets; with Euclid
3096 pVI, 59 | Since my furthest knowledge wanders astray in this general field,
3097 pV, 55 | draining a flood of drink, he wantons in excessive licentiousness,
3098 pI, 15 | frame, ministered to the wants of men like a bought slave.
3099 pVIII, 80 | measure of her love by the warm ~greeting with which she
3100 pIX, 89 | themselves in the pact of warmest friendship, the eternal
3101 pI, 10 | countenance of terrible splendor, warned destruction to others. The
3102 pIX, 90 | sympathize and condole with warped and straying error, I cannot
3103 pI, 14 | compulsion and not from warranted necessity, imprisoned its
3104 pI, 11 | repaired~the losses of its wasted round by fixed and regular
3105 pVIII, 77 | pleasures of laughter, but, watched over by both in moderation,
3106 pV, 57 | retentive memory, and by watchfulness of soul shake off slothful
3107 pII, 20 | swam out into the upper waters, in so far as the inactivity
3108 pI, 13 | told of the nature of the watery creation, as divided into
3109 mIV, 33 | earth cherishes, whom the wave worships, to whom, as to
3110 pVIII, 80 | not allow to play in free waves over her shoulders, but
3111 mIX, 87 | of the heart became like wax, 2 and the harshness of
3112 pIII, 26 | the other band, wandering waywardly and contrary to the firmament
3113 pIX, 89 | He, then, who tries to weaken my name and renown by the
3114 pII, 19 | such grace and majesty, and weakened by the blows of splendor,
3115 Pre, 2 | chargeable too heavily with the weaknesses of a compromise. It has
3116 mVII, 66 | is made poor, and stays wealthy without, but ~needy within.
3117 pI, 16 | wild boar, by its murderous weapon of a tusk, sold its death
3118 pIX, 92 | carnal love. There Sinon's weapons were the subterfuges of
3119 pI, 9 | discontent, so excess brings on weariness; and the drowsy hearing
3120 pVIII, 82 | joined in the ~kiss of the web-such that the fineness of the
3121 pVIII, 78 | marriage, the peaceful unity of wedlock, the equal yoke of matrimony,
3122 mI, 3 | Nature implores that, as, I weep, I give them a mournful
3123 pVI, 64 | proportion to the metal's weight. Not Caesar now, but money,
3124 pI, 9 | scales foretold the trial of weights. The third, the faces of
3125 pVIII, 84 | celestial home. Since, then, my welfare is affected, since our party-wall
3126 pI, 8 | in it a bull showed the well-known marks of his head, and was
3127 pIV, 42 | monstrous vices a cloak of well-sounding phrases.' ~Now the hunger
3128 pI, 6 | stealthy dew, sprung from the welling of her eyes, proclaimed
3129 pI, 16 | humble garment, laughed or wept in a splendid marriage with
3130 pIV, 34 | brothels of earth? If thou wert willing to gather up in
3131 pVI, 60 | the antarctic pole of the western ~region. Many times, also,
3132 pI, 13 | numerous species. There the whale-fought with cliffs, and rushed
3133 pIV, 42 | what indiscreet discretion, what-misguided affection, has so forced
3134 mVIII, 75 | greedy whirlpool do not whelm thee in the deep night of
3135 pVII, 74 | gift represents have been whelmed by such a tempest of ugliness
3136 | whence
3137 pIV, 41 | I marvel " then I said, wherefore certain parts of thy tunic,
3138 | whereupon
3139 mVIII, 75 | that Scylla of the greedy whirlpool do not whelm thee in the
3140 pVIII, 85 | going to shipwreck in the whirlpools of intemperance, seething
3141 pVI, 64 | hear the petitions of the whispering coin, is not willing to
3142 pI, 6 | pleasing warmth with cool whiteness-like rose-color on fine linen.
3143 | whoever
3144 pIV, 37 | me. I grieve that I have widely adorned men's natures with
3145 pVI, 64 | smallest to those of the widest scope. Our patriarch now
3146 pVI, 62 | go out is given them, the width of the door hardly suffices
3147 pVII, 71 | attributes bravery to the wildness of fear, distorts prudence
3148 pV, 53 | and dispute against the wiles of the adversary, and by
3149 pII, 19 | were united by their own willingness. And a man who towered above
3150 pIX, 94 | harmonious union of our wills I find the music of concord,
3151 mVIII, 75 | give a sort of kiss to the wine-god's cup. Let water break the
3152 pIII, 25 | reason, to set aside by the winnowing fan of its discrimination
3153 pI, 12 | The duck and the goose wintered, according to the same law
3154 mIII, 22 | makes calm the world, and wipes away the tears of winter
3155 mV, 47 | foolish, Ajax in his folly is wise. He who in time past saw
3156 pIV, 43 | Then said she: ~'When God wished to bring the creation of
3157 pVII, 72 | inglorious? ~Yet if one wishes to banish the rust of malice,
3158 mVIII, 76 | any way it can. If thou wishest to tread on the neck of
3159 pIV, 46 | not ascertainable and yet, withal, in chastened and lofty
3160 pVII, 73 | honors and good fame, either withdraw thyself from the blatant
3161 pIII, 29 | For, as the common proverb witnesses, communication of a thing
3162 pI, 16 | rejoiced in a plurality of wives, and beguiled the honor
3163 pVII, 72 | condoling with another's woe, let him rejoice in another'
3164 pI, 16 | to a better figure. The wolf lurked in hiding, assuming
3165 pII, 19 | aided the weakness of the womanly nature, and guided the approach
3166 mI, 4 | anvil. The spirit of the womb imprints no seal on matter,
3167 pIII, 26 | following reward. For prizes won by victories shine more
3168 pII, 19 | of day itself was seen to wonder at their great boldness,
3169 pVII, 70 | out from the over -full wood; they bring to bear on the
3170 pV, 56 | former is pleased with the wooded valley. The latter without
3171 pI, 13 | the serpent's figure. The woodpecker, architect of its own small
3172 pI, 12 | abroad, wandering through the woody regions. The horned owl,
3173 pVIII, 77 | rejoice in the most skillful woof of fine material. On them
3174 pII, 21 | fine linen, which she had worked for her husband, that she
3175 pIII, 28 | just as the moon in the workings of the universe is the mother
3176 pIV, 43 | production, like the industrious workman of a wonderful work, He
3177 pI, 12 | natal island, flew into our worlds, destined to become the
3178 pVII, 71 | minds of men. She is the worm because of whose bite health
3179 pIV, 38 | filed away and erased the worry of thy doubt. For these
3180 mVI, 58 | without law. The world grows worse, and now its golden age
3181 pI, 10 | full and shrank, as if it worshiped the ruby; and it petitioned
3182 pVI, 61 | region. Many times, also, the worshiper of Bacchus designs a guest-chamber
3183 mIV, 33 | cherishes, whom the wave worships, to whom, as to the mistress
3184 pII, 21 | to welcome her approach, wove garments for the trees.
3185 pIV, 45 | nature under the covering wrap of allegory, they have yet
3186 pVIII, 79 | the flood of weeping. A wreath of lilies, strung by a beautiful
3187 pVIII, 79 | to have wantoned in the wrestling-ground of love, clung to her footsteps,
3188 pIII, 32 | appearing of such bliss my poor wretchedness was ashamed. For the dark
3189 mII, 18 | ignorant of the thumb of the writer. These are the riches of
3190 mII, 18 | flower to live, Which 1 was a writing-surface of royal name, though yet
3191 pIX, 89 | of identity. . And so a wrong to the one, which does not
3192 pV, 51 | that organ characterized y the signs of the masculine
3193 mIII, 21 | had softened the rugged year, and quelled the wars of
3194 pIV, 37 | himself. And many other youths, clothed by my favor with
3195 pVIII, 79 | of constancy, and how it zealously and repelled a stepmother'
3196 pVI, 65 | untrue from the true; with Zeno to clothe falsehood in deceptive
3197 pI, 7 | shining in the likeness of the zodiacal curve, and glittering with