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... Lady , while at the same time portraying the Lady as the balance and marriage of the opposed realities of reason and passion , spirit and matter , in the golden mean of temperance . * But she is ultimately given the means to be that ...
... Lady , while at the same time portraying the Lady as the balance and marriage of the opposed realities of reason and passion , spirit and matter , in the golden mean of temperance . * But she is ultimately given the means to be that ...
Page 38
... Lady is of course in reality no ' Come down , O maid ' , but an invitation to wallow like a beast , blind to all but sensual fact - as the Lady is to point out : swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heaven amidst his gorgeous feast , But ...
... Lady is of course in reality no ' Come down , O maid ' , but an invitation to wallow like a beast , blind to all but sensual fact - as the Lady is to point out : swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heaven amidst his gorgeous feast , But ...
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... Lady . He speaks of the ' millions of spinning Worms ' nature has set to make silk ( the materialist argument implicit here is that the millions or the spawn innumerable should deny the resistance of one ) ; and says how , that no ...
... Lady . He speaks of the ' millions of spinning Worms ' nature has set to make silk ( the materialist argument implicit here is that the millions or the spawn innumerable should deny the resistance of one ) ; and says how , that no ...
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