The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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Page 5
... continually at the grate , and the monastery , when one has an inclination to make it so , is exceedingly charming and pleasant . I was present when my mother was professed . At my return I resolved to study divinity , and in- quired ...
... continually at the grate , and the monastery , when one has an inclination to make it so , is exceedingly charming and pleasant . I was present when my mother was professed . At my return I resolved to study divinity , and in- quired ...
Page 15
... continually oppressing you with fine speeches , criticising looks , and deciding upon the merit of authors . When such a one is in the rush of her discourse , husband , friends and ser- vants all fly before her . Heloise has not this ...
... continually oppressing you with fine speeches , criticising looks , and deciding upon the merit of authors . When such a one is in the rush of her discourse , husband , friends and ser- vants all fly before her . Heloise has not this ...
Page 19
... continual vexations and dangers . I imagine I see every moment a naked sword hang over my head . Sometimes they sur- round me and load me with infinite abuses ; some- times they abandon me , and I am left alone to my own tormenting ...
... continual vexations and dangers . I imagine I see every moment a naked sword hang over my head . Sometimes they sur- round me and load me with infinite abuses ; some- times they abandon me , and I am left alone to my own tormenting ...
Page 27
... continual care be taken to cultivate and secure it . Virtue in us is grafted upon nature and the woman ; the one is changeable , the other is weak . To plant the Lord's vineyard is a work of no little labour ; but after it is planted it ...
... continual care be taken to cultivate and secure it . Virtue in us is grafted upon nature and the woman ; the one is changeable , the other is weak . To plant the Lord's vineyard is a work of no little labour ; but after it is planted it ...
Page 36
... sins , weeps only for her lover ; far from abhorring her crimes , longs only to add to them ; and who , with a weakness unbecoming my state , please myself are continually with the remembrance of past delights But when it 36 LETTER II.
... sins , weeps only for her lover ; far from abhorring her crimes , longs only to add to them ; and who , with a weakness unbecoming my state , please myself are continually with the remembrance of past delights But when it 36 LETTER II.
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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