November 2011
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Byron - There be none of Beauty's daughters
There be none of Beauty’s daughters
With a magic like Thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charméd ocean’s pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull’d winds seem dreaming.
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o’er the deep,
Whose breast is gently heaving
As an infant’s...
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Ovid on loving all manner of women
I MAKE no pretence of justifying the laxity of my morals; I never resort to untruthful pretexts to excuse my wanderings from the path of virtue. I freely confess my faults, if such avowals can serve any useful purpose. Now I have acknowledged my guilt in general terms, I mean to make a clean breast of all my follies. I curse my failings, yet I cannot help finding
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pleasure in the very...
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Ovid curses himself for having mistreated his...
LOAD my guilty hands with fetters, if thou be my friend, now that my anger has departed. Rage it was, look you, that made me raise my hand against my mistress. O madman that I was I To think it was my hand that made her weep! At that moment I would have struck my father and mother; nay, I would have rained blows upon the gods themselves.
But say. Did not Ajax, armed with his sevenfold shield,...
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Ovid, his mistress and her husband will be at the...
YOUR husband will be at our supper. May that supper be his last. So I shall only be looking on my beloved as any other of the guests might look on her. The right to caress her belongs to another. Voluptuously lying at another’s feet, his is the bosom thou wilt warm. And when he will, he may pat and stroke thy neck. Marvel no more that, her bridal banquet over, the fair Hippodamia excites the...
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Wilderness in Australia - Colonial delusions.....
I recently heard an intelligent person refer to Australia as a country that still has wilderness. Since writing a research essay on Aboriginal perspectives on the concept of ‘wilderness’ in Australia, such comments drive me nuts.
For an insight into why wilderness is a problematic concept in relation to Australian landscapes and why it is part of the colonial delusions to imagine...
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