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... Latin and Greek Spenser read , he was in some degree perverted by the restless and unsettled spirit of the early Renaissance from a deep and just sense of true classicism . He is there- fore less faithful to originals . His mythology ...
... Latin and Greek Spenser read , he was in some degree perverted by the restless and unsettled spirit of the early Renaissance from a deep and just sense of true classicism . He is there- fore less faithful to originals . His mythology ...
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... Latin poets . These two conceptions are united by Statius in the expression humentes alæ , ' and again with lighter and softer effect by Milton in his ' dewy - feathered . ' Silius Italicus has elaborated this conception in describ- ing ...
... Latin poets . These two conceptions are united by Statius in the expression humentes alæ , ' and again with lighter and softer effect by Milton in his ' dewy - feathered . ' Silius Italicus has elaborated this conception in describ- ing ...
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... Latin ideas of Bacchus and Venus . In preference to this he cites from the song of ' sager poets ' another origin of Mirth , namely , Zephyr and Aurora . ' This gen- ealogy is usually explained as meaning that the merry man's day begins ...
... Latin ideas of Bacchus and Venus . In preference to this he cites from the song of ' sager poets ' another origin of Mirth , namely , Zephyr and Aurora . ' This gen- ealogy is usually explained as meaning that the merry man's day begins ...
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... Latin Elegy , which for its noble loveliness I cannot refrain from quoting at length . To his friend Diodati , who is enjoying the festivities of Christmas with friends near Chester , he admits that convivial pleasures find a certain ...
... Latin Elegy , which for its noble loveliness I cannot refrain from quoting at length . To his friend Diodati , who is enjoying the festivities of Christmas with friends near Chester , he admits that convivial pleasures find a certain ...
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... Latin poetry . It built a cathedral like St. Paul's in London , with its heavy piers , and low - browed , ponder- ous cornices , and tawdry grossness , and filled it with tombs hideous as a nightmare . It painted the religious pictures ...
... Latin poetry . It built a cathedral like St. Paul's in London , with its heavy piers , and low - browed , ponder- ous cornices , and tawdry grossness , and filled it with tombs hideous as a nightmare . It painted the religious pictures ...
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