The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark |
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... Greek as ' the primal fount of all our western wisdom ' ; French as the vehicle of Rabelaisian humanism ( but also as the lan- guage of other writers he admired - Montaigne , Balzac , Verlaine , Sartre , Simenon ) ; and Welsh , as the ...
... Greek as ' the primal fount of all our western wisdom ' ; French as the vehicle of Rabelaisian humanism ( but also as the lan- guage of other writers he admired - Montaigne , Balzac , Verlaine , Sartre , Simenon ) ; and Welsh , as the ...
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... Greek , which was such that in his edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates he revealed shortcomings in the traditional Latin text by reference to the origin- al Greek , adding commentaries in both languages . Such virtuosity was , for ...
... Greek , which was such that in his edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates he revealed shortcomings in the traditional Latin text by reference to the origin- al Greek , adding commentaries in both languages . Such virtuosity was , for ...
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... Greek however because of my mania for the Odyssey I do read a page of every morning like a lesson & have done so for many years beginning the Odyssey all over again when I get thro ' it . But even now its very rare when a page comes ...
... Greek however because of my mania for the Odyssey I do read a page of every morning like a lesson & have done so for many years beginning the Odyssey all over again when I get thro ' it . But even now its very rare when a page comes ...
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