The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... character . Among them - Musæ , the Muses ; Silva , a Forest ; Kngov , a Comb of Honey ; Kegas Apaλduas , Amalthea's Horn ( the horn of plenty ) ; Antiquæ Lectiones , Ancient Readings ; Пıvaxıdıov , a Tablet ; Exigidov , a Manual or ...
... character . Among them - Musæ , the Muses ; Silva , a Forest ; Kngov , a Comb of Honey ; Kegas Apaλduas , Amalthea's Horn ( the horn of plenty ) ; Antiquæ Lectiones , Ancient Readings ; Пıvaxıdıov , a Tablet ; Exigidov , a Manual or ...
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... character than those of many preceding works of the same kind , the authors of which seemed chiefly to have aimed at displaying the ex- tent of their reading by putting down everything , how- ever trivial or trite , that came in their ...
... character than those of many preceding works of the same kind , the authors of which seemed chiefly to have aimed at displaying the ex- tent of their reading by putting down everything , how- ever trivial or trite , that came in their ...
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... character , and judges even the fathers of the church with a discreet freedom which often breaks through the superstition of the times . " 66 ----- Such miscellaneous collections as those we have been mentioning seem , indeed , to have ...
... character , and judges even the fathers of the church with a discreet freedom which often breaks through the superstition of the times . " 66 ----- Such miscellaneous collections as those we have been mentioning seem , indeed , to have ...
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... character to the Gesta Ro- manorum . They are thus described by Warton : " The Reductorium super Bibliam , in twenty - four books , con- tains all the stories and incidents in the Bible reduced into allegories . The Repertorium Morale ...
... character to the Gesta Ro- manorum . They are thus described by Warton : " The Reductorium super Bibliam , in twenty - four books , con- tains all the stories and incidents in the Bible reduced into allegories . The Repertorium Morale ...
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... character of many of his details would certainly rather favour the latter supposition . Some passages , indeed , are of so atrocious a description , that successive editors of the original , have ( with an abstinence of which we suppose ...
... character of many of his details would certainly rather favour the latter supposition . Some passages , indeed , are of so atrocious a description , that successive editors of the original , have ( with an abstinence of which we suppose ...
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