The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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Page 8
... hope for everything from her generosity . Fulbert desired me to instruct her in philosophy ; by this means I found opportunities of being in private with her , and yet I was surely of all men the most timorous in declaring my passion ...
... hope for everything from her generosity . Fulbert desired me to instruct her in philosophy ; by this means I found opportunities of being in private with her , and yet I was surely of all men the most timorous in declaring my passion ...
Page 15
... hope of survivorship . Do you think that learning makes Heloise more amiable ? I know she is not one of those affected females who are continually oppressing you with fine speeches , criticising looks , and deciding upon the merit of ...
... hope of survivorship . Do you think that learning makes Heloise more amiable ? I know she is not one of those affected females who are continually oppressing you with fine speeches , criticising looks , and deciding upon the merit of ...
Page 36
... hope for ? The unhappy consequences of our love and your dis- grace have made me put on the habit of chastity , but I am not penitent of the past . Thus I strive and labour in vain . Among those who wedded to God I am wedded to a man ...
... hope for ? The unhappy consequences of our love and your dis- grace have made me put on the habit of chastity , but I am not penitent of the past . Thus I strive and labour in vain . Among those who wedded to God I am wedded to a man ...
Page 40
... hope for nothing . I have renounced life , and stript myself of everything , but I find I neither have nor can renounce my Abelard . Though I have lost my lover I still preserve my love . O vows ! O convent ! I have not lost my humanity ...
... hope for nothing . I have renounced life , and stript myself of everything , but I find I neither have nor can renounce my Abelard . Though I have lost my lover I still preserve my love . O vows ! O convent ! I have not lost my humanity ...
Page 43
... hope for from love . But love still preserves its dominion over my fancies and entertains itself with past pleasures . Memory supplies the place of a kill love The mistress . Piety and duty are not ABELARD TO HELOISE 43.
... hope for from love . But love still preserves its dominion over my fancies and entertains itself with past pleasures . Memory supplies the place of a kill love The mistress . Piety and duty are not ABELARD TO HELOISE 43.
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