The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... Aulus Gellius , in the Preface to his Attic . Nights , have enumerated several examples of what the latter calls the " festivitates inscriptionum ” —the fanci- ful titles - which had been given to books somewhat like theirs by many ...
... Aulus Gellius , in the Preface to his Attic . Nights , have enumerated several examples of what the latter calls the " festivitates inscriptionum ” —the fanci- ful titles - which had been given to books somewhat like theirs by many ...
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... Aulus Gellius , who probably flourished in the second century of our era , although made up , in the greater part , of critical observations on books , are still sufficiently general and miscellaneous to be reckoned in the class of ...
... Aulus Gellius , who probably flourished in the second century of our era , although made up , in the greater part , of critical observations on books , are still sufficiently general and miscellaneous to be reckoned in the class of ...
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... Aulus Gellius . There is a curious coincidence also , it may be remarked , between this title inscribed upon his lucubrations by the old Ro- man critic , and that of our delightful Oriental acquaint- ance , the Thousand and One Nights ...
... Aulus Gellius . There is a curious coincidence also , it may be remarked , between this title inscribed upon his lucubrations by the old Ro- man critic , and that of our delightful Oriental acquaint- ance , the Thousand and One Nights ...
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... Aulus Gellius , so Pliny's ape is a like title of honour that has been con- ferred upon C. Julius Solinus , who probably lived about a century before him , and who is the compiler of a con- fused miscellany of facts and remarks on all ...
... Aulus Gellius , so Pliny's ape is a like title of honour that has been con- ferred upon C. Julius Solinus , who probably lived about a century before him , and who is the compiler of a con- fused miscellany of facts and remarks on all ...
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... Aulus Gellius , Seneca , Pliny , and Boethius . To every tale a moralisation is subjoined , reducing it into a Christian or moral lesson . " The first printed edition of the Gesta Romanorum is a folio volume without date , but it is ...
... Aulus Gellius , Seneca , Pliny , and Boethius . To every tale a moralisation is subjoined , reducing it into a Christian or moral lesson . " The first printed edition of the Gesta Romanorum is a folio volume without date , but it is ...
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