The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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... LATIN POETS : CHAPTER I. - THE SILKWORM , A POEM . BY JEROME VIDA Illustration 513 II . CASIMIR SARBIEWSKI , S. SANNAZAR , JEROME FRACASTOR 534 99 III . - BEZA , VANIÈRE , BUCHANAN 547 THE RED - BREAST OF AQUITANIA AND L'ENVOY TO W. H. ...
... LATIN POETS : CHAPTER I. - THE SILKWORM , A POEM . BY JEROME VIDA Illustration 513 II . CASIMIR SARBIEWSKI , S. SANNAZAR , JEROME FRACASTOR 534 99 III . - BEZA , VANIÈRE , BUCHANAN 547 THE RED - BREAST OF AQUITANIA AND L'ENVOY TO W. H. ...
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... Latin means a sort of pea ; and so on through the whole nomen- clature . " Hence the Roman satirist , ever alive to the follies of his age , can find nothing more ludicrous than the notion of the Egyptians , who entertained a religious ...
... Latin means a sort of pea ; and so on through the whole nomen- clature . " Hence the Roman satirist , ever alive to the follies of his age , can find nothing more ludicrous than the notion of the Egyptians , who entertained a religious ...
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... Latin elegy was composed by the most learned of the order , Father Magrath , one , like Prout , of the old school , who had studied at Florence , and is still a correspondent of many learned Societies abroad . That elegy I have ...
... Latin elegy was composed by the most learned of the order , Father Magrath , one , like Prout , of the old school , who had studied at Florence , and is still a correspondent of many learned Societies abroad . That elegy I have ...
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... Latin versifica tion , as well as in French , Italian , and High Dutch ; of which accomplishments I happen to possess some fine spe- cimens from his pen ; and before I terminate this paper , I mean to introduce them to the benevolent ...
... Latin versifica tion , as well as in French , Italian , and High Dutch ; of which accomplishments I happen to possess some fine spe- cimens from his pen ; and before I terminate this paper , I mean to introduce them to the benevolent ...
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... Latin or Vulgate translation which is preserved in the Brera at Milan ; and from a strict and minute comparison with that , and with the Norman - French copy which is appended to Doomsday - book , and the Celtic - Irish fragment ...
... Latin or Vulgate translation which is preserved in the Brera at Milan ; and from a strict and minute comparison with that , and with the Norman - French copy which is appended to Doomsday - book , and the Celtic - Irish fragment ...
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