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... passage presents a number of difficulties . We follow Poma's reading usarono ( for usiamo in the text of 1594 — see Poma , p . 300 , note to 65 , 26 ) , and translate falsamente ' in fictions ' to approximate Tasso's words both to the ...
... passage presents a number of difficulties . We follow Poma's reading usarono ( for usiamo in the text of 1594 — see Poma , p . 300 , note to 65 , 26 ) , and translate falsamente ' in fictions ' to approximate Tasso's words both to the ...
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... passages , besides these , could be quoted from this oration , from his Panegyricus , and from others , in which he scorns meanness and baseness of ... passage in Italian . ! Doubtless , therefore , the most excellent forms are 24 BOOK TWO.
... passages , besides these , could be quoted from this oration , from his Panegyricus , and from others , in which he scorns meanness and baseness of ... passage in Italian . ! Doubtless , therefore , the most excellent forms are 24 BOOK TWO.
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... passage : Anger is a brief fury , and a long Fury when not controlled , that leads a master Often to shame , some other times to hell ; 2 where , if the word order were reversed , the statement would lose much of its gravity . Of this ...
... passage : Anger is a brief fury , and a long Fury when not controlled , that leads a master Often to shame , some other times to hell ; 2 where , if the word order were reversed , the statement would lose much of its gravity . Of this ...
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