Studies in Dante: Scripture and classical authors in DanteClarendon Press, 1896 |
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... familiar with them in detail . Also , he shows little , if any , knowledge of the Georgics , except one beautiful instance of reminiscence and imitation , which will be quoted below . In the case of Ovid , he knew well and used freely ...
... familiar with them in detail . Also , he shows little , if any , knowledge of the Georgics , except one beautiful instance of reminiscence and imitation , which will be quoted below . In the case of Ovid , he knew well and used freely ...
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... familiar though Florilegia . We have spoken hitherto chiefly of direct and acknowledged quotations . But in the case of Dante , or any other author , the allusive references to earlier writers are fully as instructive , and often ...
... familiar though Florilegia . We have spoken hitherto chiefly of direct and acknowledged quotations . But in the case of Dante , or any other author , the allusive references to earlier writers are fully as instructive , and often ...
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... familiar though Florilegia . We have spoken hitherto chiefly of direct and acknowledged quotations . But in the case of Dante , or any other author , the allusive references to earlier writers are fully as instructive , and often ...
... familiar though Florilegia . We have spoken hitherto chiefly of direct and acknowledged quotations . But in the case of Dante , or any other author , the allusive references to earlier writers are fully as instructive , and often ...
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... familiar from Ps . lxxvii . 25 , though giving it a different appli- cation . And the somewhat difficult expression , ' Pon giù il seme del piangere , ' in Purg . xxxi . 46 , is probably best ex- plained by a sort of echo of ' they that ...
... familiar from Ps . lxxvii . 25 , though giving it a different appli- cation . And the somewhat difficult expression , ' Pon giù il seme del piangere , ' in Purg . xxxi . 46 , is probably best ex- plained by a sort of echo of ' they that ...
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... familiar passage . It is not improbable that some , at least , of Dante's numerous ' echoes ' of quotations may have had a similar origin . But be this as it may , I have noticed , especially in the case of Ovid , a tendency on the part ...
... familiar passage . It is not improbable that some , at least , of Dante's numerous ' echoes ' of quotations may have had a similar origin . But be this as it may , I have noticed , especially in the case of Ovid , a tendency on the part ...
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