The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... lovers is told in their correspondence , but the outline of their lives is briefly this : -Abelard , Professor of ... lover can . Reason and religion are thrown to the winds ; he would marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad ...
... lovers is told in their correspondence , but the outline of their lives is briefly this : -Abelard , Professor of ... lover can . Reason and religion are thrown to the winds ; he would marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad ...
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... lovers ; he with man's mania to master , she with woman's one desire to submit . No love letters that have ever been written but have contained phrases common to one another and to be found here ; but no love letters that have ever been ...
... lovers ; he with man's mania to master , she with woman's one desire to submit . No love letters that have ever been written but have contained phrases common to one another and to be found here ; but no love letters that have ever been ...
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... Lovers either find or make all things easy . By the offices of common friends I gained the acquaintance of Fulbert ; and can you believe it , Philintus , he allowed me the privilege of his table , and an apartment in his house ? osophy ...
... Lovers either find or make all things easy . By the offices of common friends I gained the acquaintance of Fulbert ; and can you believe it , Philintus , he allowed me the privilege of his table , and an apartment in his house ? osophy ...
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... lovers , with giving insipid kisses to a wall , we made use of all the moments of our charm- ing interviews . In the place where we met we had no lions to fear , and the study of philosophy served us for a blind . But I was so far from ...
... lovers , with giving insipid kisses to a wall , we made use of all the moments of our charm- ing interviews . In the place where we met we had no lions to fear , and the study of philosophy served us for a blind . But I was so far from ...
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... lover . She answered she would under- take anything to serve me , but there was a reward . At these words I opened my purse and showed the shining metal which puts to sleep guards , forces a way through rocks , and softens the heart of ...
... lover . She answered she would under- take anything to serve me , but there was a reward . At these words I opened my purse and showed the shining metal which puts to sleep guards , forces a way through rocks , and softens the heart of ...
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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