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... verses , and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius Archbishop of Thessalonica , who from his horn of plenty has ... verse . Numerous Latin collections of the same kind also sprang up soon after this time for the use of the Western ...
... verses , and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius Archbishop of Thessalonica , who from his horn of plenty has ... verse . Numerous Latin collections of the same kind also sprang up soon after this time for the use of the Western ...
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... verses as follows , in which the first letters of each word together make up Johannes de Fordun : : - Incipies opus hoe Adonai : nomine nostri Exceptum scriptis dirigat Emanuel . Fauces ornatè ructent , dum verbera nectant . Jean de ...
... verses as follows , in which the first letters of each word together make up Johannes de Fordun : : - Incipies opus hoe Adonai : nomine nostri Exceptum scriptis dirigat Emanuel . Fauces ornatè ructent , dum verbera nectant . Jean de ...
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... verses , which were signed " Le Duc de Nor- mandie , " which was the title of the unfortunate dauphin . To pass time , the poet began to hum over the verses , and this led to a conversation with another prisoner in a contiguous cell ...
... verses , which were signed " Le Duc de Nor- mandie , " which was the title of the unfortunate dauphin . To pass time , the poet began to hum over the verses , and this led to a conversation with another prisoner in a contiguous cell ...
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... verse - makers , this seems to be one of the most paltry and mean . It was however cherished by many in the middle of the seventeenth century , when it often hap- pened that more attention was paid by the writer to the shape of his poem ...
... verse - makers , this seems to be one of the most paltry and mean . It was however cherished by many in the middle of the seventeenth century , when it often hap- pened that more attention was paid by the writer to the shape of his poem ...
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... verse ought not to be redu- ced to a piece of cabinet - maker's work , or the pattern- cutting of a milliner . Samuel Butler , in his " Character of a Small Poet , " thus severely handles Mr. Benlowes on this particular head . " There ...
... verse ought not to be redu- ced to a piece of cabinet - maker's work , or the pattern- cutting of a milliner . Samuel Butler , in his " Character of a Small Poet , " thus severely handles Mr. Benlowes on this particular head . " There ...
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