The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... charm- ing interviews . In the place where we met we had no lions to fear , and the study of philosophy served us for a blind . But I was so far from making any advances in the sciences that I lost all my taste for them , and when I was ...
... charm- ing interviews . In the place where we met we had no lions to fear , and the study of philosophy served us for a blind . But I was so far from making any advances in the sciences that I lost all my taste for them , and when I was ...
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... charms because it was more free . The bonds of matrimony , however honourable , still bear with them a necessary ... charm of love . True 30 LETTER II.
... charms because it was more free . The bonds of matrimony , however honourable , still bear with them a necessary ... charm of love . True 30 LETTER II.
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Peter Abelard. and pomp are not the charm of love . True The tenderness makes us separate the lover from all martyrs of that is external to him , and setting aside his position , fortune or employments , consider him merely as himself ...
Peter Abelard. and pomp are not the charm of love . True The tenderness makes us separate the lover from all martyrs of that is external to him , and setting aside his position , fortune or employments , consider him merely as himself ...
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... charms but what your wit bestowed on me , nor in anything the advantage over them but in being beloved by you . Can you believe me if I tell you , that notwithstanding my sex , I thought myself peculiarly happy in having a lover to whom ...
... charms but what your wit bestowed on me , nor in anything the advantage over them but in being beloved by you . Can you believe me if I tell you , that notwithstanding my sex , I thought myself peculiarly happy in having a lover to whom ...
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... charms to refined natures , that when once we have drunk of the cup of sinners it is with such difficulty we accept the chalice of saints ? Or did you believe yourself to be more competent to teach vice than virtue , or me more ready to ...
... charms to refined natures , that when once we have drunk of the cup of sinners it is with such difficulty we accept the chalice of saints ? Or did you believe yourself to be more competent to teach vice than virtue , or me more ready to ...
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