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... Greek and Roman mythology and from Aesopic material . The conflict in which a knight overcame a dragon , a lion , or ... Greek and Roman mythology . One easily recalls to mind the Biblical accounts of Samson and the lion and David and ...
... Greek and Roman mythology and from Aesopic material . The conflict in which a knight overcame a dragon , a lion , or ... Greek and Roman mythology . One easily recalls to mind the Biblical accounts of Samson and the lion and David and ...
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... Greek models with the excellence of Greek poetry . Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with ...
... Greek models with the excellence of Greek poetry . Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with ...
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... Greek text : Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort ( eds . ) , The New Testament in the Original Greek . 52. Deut . 33:17 ; Job 39 : 9-12 ; Ps . 92:10 . 53. Isa . 14:29 ; Isa . 59 : 5 . The terms basilisk and cockatrice are ...
... Greek text : Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort ( eds . ) , The New Testament in the Original Greek . 52. Deut . 33:17 ; Job 39 : 9-12 ; Ps . 92:10 . 53. Isa . 14:29 ; Isa . 59 : 5 . The terms basilisk and cockatrice are ...
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