Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To which is prefix'd, A particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes, extr. chiefly from [the Dictionnaire of] m. Bayle, tr. [by J. Hughes]. By J. Hughes. Together with the poem of Eloisa to Abelard, by mr. Pope, and the poem of Abelard to Eloisa, by mrs. Madan |
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... never confidering that love is a great ruiner of projects , and that when it has once got a fhare in a heart , it is eafy to poffefs itself of the whole . He was now in the feven or eight and twentieth year of his age , when he thought ...
... never confidering that love is a great ruiner of projects , and that when it has once got a fhare in a heart , it is eafy to poffefs itself of the whole . He was now in the feven or eight and twentieth year of his age , when he thought ...
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... never fcrupled in the leaft to trust them together , and thought he had all the fecurity in the world for their virtue . Abelard you may be fure , made ufe of the ... Never Never did two lovers give a greater loose to their 10 The HISTORY of.
... never fcrupled in the leaft to trust them together , and thought he had all the fecurity in the world for their virtue . Abelard you may be fure , made ufe of the ... Never Never did two lovers give a greater loose to their 10 The HISTORY of.
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Petrus Abaelardus. Never did two lovers give a greater loose to their delights than did these two for five or fix months ; they lived in all the endearments which could enter into the hearts of young beginners . This is Abelard's own ...
Petrus Abaelardus. Never did two lovers give a greater loose to their delights than did these two for five or fix months ; they lived in all the endearments which could enter into the hearts of young beginners . This is Abelard's own ...
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... herself with child , and yet she did her utmost not to be married . Never * See Abelard's letter to Philintus , and Heloise's first Letter to Abelard . fure fure was fo odd an example as these two things ABELARD and HELOISE . 13.
... herself with child , and yet she did her utmost not to be married . Never * See Abelard's letter to Philintus , and Heloise's first Letter to Abelard . fure fure was fo odd an example as these two things ABELARD and HELOISE . 13.
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... never heard of before , made her chufe to be Abelard's miftrefs rather than his wife . We fhall fee , in the course of this history , how firm she was in this refɔlu- tion , with what arguments the fupported it , and how earnestly she ...
... never heard of before , made her chufe to be Abelard's miftrefs rather than his wife . We fhall fee , in the course of this history , how firm she was in this refɔlu- tion , with what arguments the fupported it , and how earnestly she ...
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Page 124 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Page 126 - The darksome pines, that o'er yon rocks reclin'd, Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind, The wandering streams that shine between the hills, The grots that echo to the tinkling rills, The dying gales that pant upon the trees, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze...
Page 124 - Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Page 125 - With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
Page 123 - Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join. Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine. Nor foes nor fortune take this power away; And is my Abelard less kind than they?
Page 130 - Ah come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine. Fair eyes, and tempting looks (which yet I view!) Long lov'd, ador'd ideas!
Page 123 - Nor prayers nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain, Nor tears for ages taught to flow in vain. Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.
Page 131 - O'er the pale marble shall they join their heads, And drink the falling tears each other sheds; Then sadly say, with mutual pity mov'd, 'Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!
Page 124 - em all : Not Casfar's emprefs would I deign to prove ; No, make me miftrefs to the man I love. If there be yet another name more free, More fond than...
Page 128 - The phantom flies me, as unkind as you. I call aloud; it hears not what I say; I stretch my empty arms; it glides away: To dream once more I close my willing eyes; Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise ! 240 Alas no more ! — methinks we wandring go Thro...