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... quoted passage he alludes to Ovid's Creation - witness his translation of Ovid's line 19 , “ frigida pugnabant calidis , umentia siccis . " He adapts Ovid's description of the globe , with its harmonious pat- tern of elements , to the ...
... quoted passage he alludes to Ovid's Creation - witness his translation of Ovid's line 19 , “ frigida pugnabant calidis , umentia siccis . " He adapts Ovid's description of the globe , with its harmonious pat- tern of elements , to the ...
Page 113
... quoted , as well as others . Evidently he considered that Manilius was the most suitable model for a tribute to a scientist . He claims that Newton had conquered the last secrets of the uni- verse and dispelled the darkness of former ...
... quoted , as well as others . Evidently he considered that Manilius was the most suitable model for a tribute to a scientist . He claims that Newton had conquered the last secrets of the uni- verse and dispelled the darkness of former ...
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... quoted in the Twickenham edition are also remark- ably close . ) A few lines lower down , we find these observations on human mutability over time , Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds , Quick whirls , and shifting eddies ...
... quoted in the Twickenham edition are also remark- ably close . ) A few lines lower down , we find these observations on human mutability over time , Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds , Quick whirls , and shifting eddies ...
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The Rape of a Myth | 7 |
The Wild Heap and the Ordered Frame | 33 |
Manilius Creech and An Essay on Man | 105 |
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