The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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Page 1
... endeavour to serve you ; and think this no small mark of my affection ; for I am going to present you with the relation of such particulars as it is impossible for me to re- He re- collect without piercing my heart with the most I ...
... endeavour to serve you ; and think this no small mark of my affection ; for I am going to present you with the relation of such particulars as it is impossible for me to re- He re- collect without piercing my heart with the most I ...
Page 19
... endeavour to merit by my sufferings and so appease an angry God . Sometimes I grieve for the loss of the house of the Paraclete and wish to see it again . Ah , Philintus ! does not the love for Heloise yet burn in my heart ! I have not ...
... endeavour to merit by my sufferings and so appease an angry God . Sometimes I grieve for the loss of the house of the Paraclete and wish to see it again . Ah , Philintus ! does not the love for Heloise yet burn in my heart ! I have not ...
Page 37
... endeavour to break those chains by which I am bound to you I only deceive myself , and all my efforts but serve to bind them faster . Oh , for pity's sake help a wretch to renounce her desires - her self - and if possible even to ...
... endeavour to break those chains by which I am bound to you I only deceive myself , and all my efforts but serve to bind them faster . Oh , for pity's sake help a wretch to renounce her desires - her self - and if possible even to ...
Page 52
... endeavour after it ! I went every day trembling to exhort you to this sacrifice ; I admired , without daring to mention it then , a brightness in your beauty which I had never observed before . Whether it was the bloom of a rising ...
... endeavour after it ! I went every day trembling to exhort you to this sacrifice ; I admired , without daring to mention it then , a brightness in your beauty which I had never observed before . Whether it was the bloom of a rising ...
Page 65
... endeavour to entice thee , permit not thyself to be overcome by a corrupt inclination ; reject the poison she offers , and follow not the paths she directs . Her house is the gate of destruction and death . ' I have long examined things ...
... endeavour to entice thee , permit not thyself to be overcome by a corrupt inclination ; reject the poison she offers , and follow not the paths she directs . Her house is the gate of destruction and death . ' I have long examined things ...
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