"Thebaid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turned their faces away from sex and strenuously opposed the Syrian cults? How was it that this reaction extended into Christianity and became even more definite in the Christian Church—that monks went by thousands into the deserts of the Thebaid, and that the early Fathers and Christian apologists could not find terms foul enough to hurl at Woman as the symbol (to them) of nothing but sex-corruption and delusion? How was it that this contempt of the body and degradation of sex-things went on far into the Middle Ages of Europe, and ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... of a valley in the Thebaid. On the right hand of the stage is a cavern. In front of the cavern stands ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... the Conciergerie. Other kinds of poverty, the poverty of the artist—actor, painter, musician, or poet—are relieved and lightened by the artist's joviality, the reckless gaiety of the Bohemian border country—the first stage of the journey to the Thebaid of genius. But these two black-coated professions that go afoot through the street are brought continually in contact with disease and dishonor; they see nothing of human nature but its sores; in ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac |
