Studies in Dante: Scripture and classical authors in DanteClarendon Press, 1896 |
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... correct , or at least proportionately fair in relation to different authors , we may analyse the result further thus : -The Vulgate is quoted or referred to more than 500 times , Aristotle more than 300 , Virgil about 200 , Ovid about ...
... correct , or at least proportionately fair in relation to different authors , we may analyse the result further thus : -The Vulgate is quoted or referred to more than 500 times , Aristotle more than 300 , Virgil about 200 , Ovid about ...
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... correct than the premises , for there is only one definite quotation from Horace ( Ars Poetica , it is true ) in the whole of the Convito 1 . 6 ( It is interesting to compare with the results thus tabulated . some passages in which ...
... correct than the premises , for there is only one definite quotation from Horace ( Ars Poetica , it is true ) in the whole of the Convito 1 . 6 ( It is interesting to compare with the results thus tabulated . some passages in which ...
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... correct to infer that all the quotations and references in such a list as we have given above are proof of direct acquaintance on the part of Dante with the original passages . Allowance must no doubt be made , in the case at least of ...
... correct to infer that all the quotations and references in such a list as we have given above are proof of direct acquaintance on the part of Dante with the original passages . Allowance must no doubt be made , in the case at least of ...
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... correct than we have to improve his literary style or to bring his scientific or historical know- ledge up to date . Some of the tests bearing on this distinction I will speak of presently , but I will first select out of the 1 This is ...
... correct than we have to improve his literary style or to bring his scientific or historical know- ledge up to date . Some of the tests bearing on this distinction I will speak of presently , but I will first select out of the 1 This is ...
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... correct reading : ' Ma tosto fien li fatti le Naiade Che solveranno questo enigma forte . ' How came Dante , it may be asked , to assign to the Naiads the astonishing function of solving riddles ? But any one who refers to a modern ...
... correct reading : ' Ma tosto fien li fatti le Naiade Che solveranno questo enigma forte . ' How came Dante , it may be asked , to assign to the Naiads the astonishing function of solving riddles ? But any one who refers to a modern ...
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