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... curious coincidence that in a passage which I lately came across in Rabanus Maurus ( d . 856 ) the same five poets are selected for pre- eminence , but with a ludicrously different object . In a passage which is probably the most ...
... curious coincidence that in a passage which I lately came across in Rabanus Maurus ( d . 856 ) the same five poets are selected for pre- eminence , but with a ludicrously different object . In a passage which is probably the most ...
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... curious selection , and Dante never , I believe , betrays any knowledge of either Pliny or Frontinus , nor does he ever again mention their names . The very noticeable omission of Tacitus ( in whom Dante would have found in some ...
... curious selection , and Dante never , I believe , betrays any knowledge of either Pliny or Frontinus , nor does he ever again mention their names . The very noticeable omission of Tacitus ( in whom Dante would have found in some ...
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... curious that the passage attributed by Albertus to Albumassar is not to be found in his writings , so that Dante has probably copied a wrong reference also . choruses of Handel , for instance , are simply borrowed SCRIPTURE AND THE ...
... curious that the passage attributed by Albertus to Albumassar is not to be found in his writings , so that Dante has probably copied a wrong reference also . choruses of Handel , for instance , are simply borrowed SCRIPTURE AND THE ...
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... curiously misquoted , or rather mistranslated , by Dante in Conv . II . vi . The words are : ' Nate , patris summi qui tela Typhoïa temnis . ' Dante is aware that Venus is addressing Cupid , and yet he takes patris summi as the genitive ...
... curiously misquoted , or rather mistranslated , by Dante in Conv . II . vi . The words are : ' Nate , patris summi qui tela Typhoïa temnis . ' Dante is aware that Venus is addressing Cupid , and yet he takes patris summi as the genitive ...
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... curious habit ( for so it seems at first sight ) which may be briefly noticed here , of placing side by side quotations from Scripture and so - called profane authors , balancing one against the other , as though they had something like ...
... curious habit ( for so it seems at first sight ) which may be briefly noticed here , of placing side by side quotations from Scripture and so - called profane authors , balancing one against the other , as though they had something like ...
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