The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... gives the spirit of the original . The story of these illustrious lovers is told in their correspondence , but the outline of their lives is briefly this : -Abelard , Professor of Logic and Canon of Notre Dame , the most cele- brated ...
... gives the spirit of the original . The story of these illustrious lovers is told in their correspondence , but the outline of their lives is briefly this : -Abelard , Professor of Logic and Canon of Notre Dame , the most cele- brated ...
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... give you my own opinion , one more venerable for his age and his wrinkles than for his genius or learning . If you consulted him upon any difficulty , the sure consequence was to be much more uncertain in the point . They who only saw ...
... give you my own opinion , one more venerable for his age and his wrinkles than for his genius or learning . If you consulted him upon any difficulty , the sure consequence was to be much more uncertain in the point . They who only saw ...
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... give us a plausible occasion of meeting . Pyramus and Thisbe's discovery of the crack in the wall was but a slight representa- tion of our love and its sagacity . In the dead of night , when Fulbert and his domestics were in a sound ...
... give us a plausible occasion of meeting . Pyramus and Thisbe's discovery of the crack in the wall was but a slight representa- tion of our love and its sagacity . In the dead of night , when Fulbert and his domestics were in a sound ...
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... give him a handsome employment . To say nothing of a young officer who patrols about here every night and makes his attacks in all sorts of imaginable forms . It must be love only which could oblige him to follow me , for I have not ...
... give him a handsome employment . To say nothing of a young officer who patrols about here every night and makes his attacks in all sorts of imaginable forms . It must be love only which could oblige him to follow me , for I have not ...
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... give me a hundred more reasons of this kind , but I angrily interrupted her , telling her only that she did not know Heloise . A few days after we departed together from Brittany and came to Paris , where I completed my project . It was ...
... give me a hundred more reasons of this kind , but I angrily interrupted her , telling her only that she did not know Heloise . A few days after we departed together from Brittany and came to Paris , where I completed my project . It was ...
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