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Page 88
... eyes the grace and modesty of Matilda : ' As a lady turns in the dance with feet close together on the ground and hardly puts one foot before the other , she turned towards me on the red and yellow flowerlets like a virgin that veils ...
... eyes the grace and modesty of Matilda : ' As a lady turns in the dance with feet close together on the ground and hardly puts one foot before the other , she turned towards me on the red and yellow flowerlets like a virgin that veils ...
Page 123
... eyes , gives them motion and life , and so to speak animates the inanimate . To say that a good man is ' impervious to the blows of fortune ' * 2 is a metaphor , since both terms are correct , but not an active metaphor since it puts ...
... eyes , gives them motion and life , and so to speak animates the inanimate . To say that a good man is ' impervious to the blows of fortune ' * 2 is a metaphor , since both terms are correct , but not an active metaphor since it puts ...
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... eye of all rivers , lovely Metauro , * 2 was not said as gracefully as Catullus put it : O very eye of rivers . * 3 Another writer erred in calling the stars nails of the sky , and saying to his lady : Your eyes are like small revolving ...
... eye of all rivers , lovely Metauro , * 2 was not said as gracefully as Catullus put it : O very eye of rivers . * 3 Another writer erred in calling the stars nails of the sky , and saying to his lady : Your eyes are like small revolving ...
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