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... truth , and this is proper to philosophy , where truth - which the poet's art intermixes with fictions of his own composing - ought not be hidden under a cloak of the opposite kind of sordid inventions and debased words , but piously ...
... truth , and this is proper to philosophy , where truth - which the poet's art intermixes with fictions of his own composing - ought not be hidden under a cloak of the opposite kind of sordid inventions and debased words , but piously ...
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... truth , it may haply be that stories deftly decked with glittering lies lead them astray ' ; 1 as the pleasure of the lie varies the aspect of truth , painting it , so to speak , with its own colours , it more easily deceives . None the ...
... truth , it may haply be that stories deftly decked with glittering lies lead them astray ' ; 1 as the pleasure of the lie varies the aspect of truth , painting it , so to speak , with its own colours , it more easily deceives . None the ...
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... truth , or if they want to can tell the truth , but in an absolute sense he calls them the daughters of Jupiter , and truth - tellers in these lines : I 2 3 Chapter 22 . A l'alta fantasia mancò qui possa . ( Paradiso 33. 142. ) Poi ...
... truth , or if they want to can tell the truth , but in an absolute sense he calls them the daughters of Jupiter , and truth - tellers in these lines : I 2 3 Chapter 22 . A l'alta fantasia mancò qui possa . ( Paradiso 33. 142. ) Poi ...
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