The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... once more . Abelard died in 1142 at the age of sixty - three , and twenty years later Heloise died and was buried beside him . Subsequently their remains were re- moved to Père Lachaise , where their tomb can now be seen . And Abelard ...
... once more . Abelard died in 1142 at the age of sixty - three , and twenty years later Heloise died and was buried beside him . Subsequently their remains were re- moved to Père Lachaise , where their tomb can now be seen . And Abelard ...
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... once viewed my happiness with jealous eyes , that he you once envied me can never more be mine . I loved him ; my love was his crime and the cause of his punishment . My beauty once charmed him ; pleased with each other we passed our ...
... once viewed my happiness with jealous eyes , that he you once envied me can never more be mine . I loved him ; my love was his crime and the cause of his punishment . My beauty once charmed him ; pleased with each other we passed our ...
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... once to break off loving me ! Why did you not deceive me for a while rather than immediately abandon me ? If you had given me at least some faint signs of a dying passion I would have favoured the deception . But in vain do I flatter ...
... once to break off loving me ! Why did you not deceive me for a while rather than immediately abandon me ? If you had given me at least some faint signs of a dying passion I would have favoured the deception . But in vain do I flatter ...
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... once we have drunk of the cup of sinners it is with such difficulty we accept the chalice of saints ? Or did you believe yourself to be more competent to teach vice than virtue , or me more ready to learn the first than the 38 LETTER II.
... once we have drunk of the cup of sinners it is with such difficulty we accept the chalice of saints ? Or did you believe yourself to be more competent to teach vice than virtue , or me more ready to learn the first than the 38 LETTER II.
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... once loved which continually torments me . I flattered myself that when I should see you no more you would rest in my memory without troubling my mind ; that Brit- tany and the sea would suggest other thoughts ; that my fasts and ...
... once loved which continually torments me . I flattered myself that when I should see you no more you would rest in my memory without troubling my mind ; that Brit- tany and the sea would suggest other thoughts ; that my fasts and ...
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