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  1. Give all thou canst—and let me dream the rest. Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God. Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care, Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.

  2. Eloisa to Abelard. Abelard and his pupil Heloise by Edmund Leighton, 1882. Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations throughout the rest of the century ...

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  4. Sep 2, 2023 · Eloisa to Abelard (1717) is a poem by Alexander Pope. It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th-century story of Héloïse 's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris, and the brutal vengeance that her family exacts when they castrate him, even ...

  5. Aug 9, 2021 · 24. “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world, forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned.”. — Alexander Pope. Read -> 57 of the Best Tinkerbell Quotes. 25. “I walked out the door.

  6. Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. The title Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind comes from these lines. Mary Svevo quotes Alexander Pope's poem in Eloisa to Abélard during Joel's procedure. Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of ...

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  7. Sep 14, 2023 · Brilliant Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Quotes. 1. “Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.” — Clementine Kruczynski. 2. “My embarrassing admission is I really like that you’re nice, right now.”. — Clementine Kruczynski. 3.

  8. Sep 4, 2015 · Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; In the context of the poem, the meaning of the lines is straightforward, syntactically: Eloisa is comparing the 'happy lot' of a hypothetical blameless virgin ("vestal") in the convent with her own tragic fate. The vestal with her spotless mind experiences ...

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