...alone, for he Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? p?he -world forgetting, by the world forgot: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned; Labour and rest, that equal* periods keep ; " Obedient slumbers...

...myself — and you. Fill my fond heart with God alone, for he 205 Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world...spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; aio Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; "Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep2;"...

...light wings, and in a moment flies. Line 74 And love the offender yet detest the offence. Lixt 192. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Line 207. One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight ; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my...

...self — and you. Fill my fond heart with God alone, for he 205 Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot ! The world...spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign' d; 210 177 ff. There are several parallels to this in the letters, since it is their central...

...reader to the effects of repetition, the opposition of heroic love to conventional religious ideas (' How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot...' 2o7-8) - we no longer believe them, and, as the impassioned language of Eloisa shows that she herself...

...chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade....

...(1844-1900). German philosopher. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, pi. 1. "Of Chastity" (1883-92; tr. 1961). 1 1 4 Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share on ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1 744), English satirical poet, f/oi» to 12 Your old virginity is like one of...

...By them unknown, by thee forgot" ( 39 ) — an echo of the rueful reverence Pope wrote for Eloisa: "How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot" (Eloisa toAhrlard 207-8). In other poems Hemans compounds women's self-sacrifice with infanticide —...

...virgin purity. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. The elder brother, in "Comus," I. 420-7 (1637). 3 How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ALEXANDER POPE, (1688-1744) British satirical poet. "Eloísa to Abelard," I. 207-8 (1717). Chicago...

...full, possessing, and possessed, No craving void left aching in the breast. 8845 Eloisa to Abelard t 8846 Eloisa to Abelard One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim...