The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad as his , and marriage would arrest his advancement in the Church , so she refuses - yet gives him all . Her child is born , and then Abelard insists on a secret marriage , but in her ...
... marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad as his , and marriage would arrest his advancement in the Church , so she refuses - yet gives him all . Her child is born , and then Abelard insists on a secret marriage , but in her ...
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... marry me to his gentle- revenge man and 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 ...
... marry me to his gentle- revenge man and 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 ...
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... marriage an occasion of suspecting him for something more than the uncle of Heloise . In short , I began to pity his misfortune , and to think this robbery which love had made me commit was a sort of treason . I endeavoured to appease ...
... marriage an occasion of suspecting him for something more than the uncle of Heloise . In short , I began to pity his misfortune , and to think this robbery which love had made me commit was a sort of treason . I endeavoured to appease ...
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... married man's only hope of survivorship . Do you think that learning makes Heloise more amiable ? I know she is not one of those affected females who are ... marriage B Fulbert's will not be the tomb of her love ? 4 15 ABELARD TO PHILINTUS.
... married man's only hope of survivorship . Do you think that learning makes Heloise more amiable ? I know she is not one of those affected females who are ... marriage B Fulbert's will not be the tomb of her love ? 4 15 ABELARD TO PHILINTUS.
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... marriage should be kept secret , and therefore Heloise retired among the nuns of Argenteuil . He I now thought Fulbert's anger disarmed ; I lived in peace ; but alas ! our marriage proved but a weak defence against his revenge . Observe ...
... marriage should be kept secret , and therefore Heloise retired among the nuns of Argenteuil . He I now thought Fulbert's anger disarmed ; I lived in peace ; but alas ! our marriage proved but a weak defence against his revenge . Observe ...
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