The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... cloister , divinity where he offered up to Heaven the languid re- mains of a life he could make no further use of . My mother , who was yet young , took the same resolution . She turned a Religious , but did not entirely abandon the ...
... cloister , divinity where he offered up to Heaven the languid re- mains of a life he could make no further use of . My mother , who was yet young , took the same resolution . She turned a Religious , but did not entirely abandon the ...
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... cloister I obliged her to take the cloister habit and retire into the nunnery of Argenteuil . 16 LETTER I.
... cloister I obliged her to take the cloister habit and retire into the nunnery of Argenteuil . 16 LETTER I.
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Peter Abelard. cloister habit and retire into the nunnery of Argenteuil . They I remember somebody would have opposed ... cloister and resolved to vanquish a useless passion . I now reflected that God had chastised me thus grievously that ...
Peter Abelard. cloister habit and retire into the nunnery of Argenteuil . They I remember somebody would have opposed ... cloister and resolved to vanquish a useless passion . I now reflected that God had chastised me thus grievously that ...
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... cloisters owe nothing to public needs charities ; our walls were not raised by the usuries support of publicans , nor their foundations laid in base extortion . The God whom we serve sees nothing but innocent riches and harmless ...
... cloisters owe nothing to public needs charities ; our walls were not raised by the usuries support of publicans , nor their foundations laid in base extortion . The God whom we serve sees nothing but innocent riches and harmless ...
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... cloister with reason , persuade me to stay in it with devotion . You have been the occasion of all my misfortunes , you therefore must be the instrument of all my comfort . You cannot but remember ( for lovers cannot forget ) with what ...
... cloister with reason , persuade me to stay in it with devotion . You have been the occasion of all my misfortunes , you therefore must be the instrument of all my comfort . You cannot but remember ( for lovers cannot forget ) with what ...
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Abbot of Cluni Abelard and Heloise affliction altar Argenteuil Aristotle beauty Brittany buried myself alive Champeaux charms cloister Cluny comfort confess conquer Council of Sens Council of Soissons crime cruel dear Abelard death delight desire divine duty Eloïsa endeavour enemies envy esteem ev'ry eyes fatal father fear flatter forget Fulbert give glory grace grief guilty happy hear heart Heaven Heloise holy honour husband imagination innocent joys learning letters live Lord lover marriage master memory mind miserable misfortunes mistress never occasion ourselves pain Paraclete Paris passion penitence Père Lachaise persuaded Peter Abelard Philintus piety pity pleasure prayers punishment reason religion renounce repentance reproach retirement saints salvation sensible shame sighs silence sincere sister sorrows soul suffer tears tell temptations tender Tertullian thee thou thought tion torments trembling trouble unhappy Villenave virtue vows weakness weep woman wretched write