The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... woman of nineteen , and falls desperately in love - as only the late lover can . Reason and religion are thrown to the winds ; he would marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad as his , and marriage would arrest his advancement ...
... woman of nineteen , and falls desperately in love - as only the late lover can . Reason and religion are thrown to the winds ; he would marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad as his , and marriage would arrest his advancement ...
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... woman . So they remain to us , the typical 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 ...
... woman . So they remain to us , the typical 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 ...
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... woman rejected is an outrageous creature . Agaton was at her window night and day on purpose to keep me away from her mistress , and so she gave her gallants every opportunity to display their abilities . I was infinitely perplexed what ...
... woman rejected is an outrageous creature . Agaton was at her window night and day on purpose to keep me away from her mistress , and so she gave her gallants every opportunity to display their abilities . I was infinitely perplexed what ...
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... woman ? Come , come , the head of a philosopher is less secure than those of other men ! ' My sister grew warm in the argument , and was going on to give me a hundred more reasons of this kind , but I angrily interrupted her , telling ...
... woman ? Come , come , the head of a philosopher is less secure than those of other men ! ' My sister grew warm in the argument , and was going on to give me a hundred more reasons of this kind , but I angrily interrupted her , telling ...
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... woman who had so high a taste of pleasures which she might still enjoy . I blushed at my own weakness , and without deliberating a moment longer I buried myself in a cloister and resolved to vanquish a useless passion . I now reflected ...
... woman who had so high a taste of pleasures which she might still enjoy . I blushed at my own weakness , and without deliberating a moment longer I buried myself in a cloister and resolved to vanquish a useless passion . I now reflected ...
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