The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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Page 5
... thing with its smoke ; a tree beautified with variety of leaves and branches , but barren of fruit . I came to him with a desire to learn , but found him like the fig tree in the Gospel , or the old oak to which Lucan compares Pompey ...
... thing with its smoke ; a tree beautified with variety of leaves and branches , but barren of fruit . I came to him with a desire to learn , but found him like the fig tree in the Gospel , or the old oak to which Lucan compares Pompey ...
Page 7
... thing brought her image to my mind . I was pensive and restless , and my passion was so violent as to admit of no restraint ... things easy . By the offices of common friends I gained the acquaintance of Fulbert ; and can you believe it ...
... thing brought her image to my mind . I was pensive and restless , and my passion was so violent as to admit of no restraint ... things easy . By the offices of common friends I gained the acquaintance of Fulbert ; and can you believe it ...
Page 10
... things are easy ; I could now do nothing but write verses to soothe my passion . I quitted Aristotle and his dry maxims to practise the precepts of the more ingenious Ovid . No day passed in which I did not compose amorous verses ; love ...
... things are easy ; I could now do nothing but write verses to soothe my passion . I quitted Aristotle and his dry maxims to practise the precepts of the more ingenious Ovid . No day passed in which I did not compose amorous verses ; love ...
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... things to us , you will delay writing too long . Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous , and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should ...
... things to us , you will delay writing too long . Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous , and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should ...
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... things of this world and nourished with the fatness of the earth ; and you neglect the innocent sheep , who , tender as they are , would yet follow you over deserts and mountains . Why are such pains thrown away upon the ungrateful ...
... things of this world and nourished with the fatness of the earth ; and you neglect the innocent sheep , who , tender as they are , would yet follow you over deserts and mountains . Why are such pains thrown away upon the ungrateful ...
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