“All afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury.”
Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire.
Phèdre, act I, scene III.
Phèdre (1677)
“My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.”
Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
Em minha perdição se conjuraram.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 99
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
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Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente Em minha perdição se conjuraram.
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
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