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Il video “è per metà allegoria della storia russa attraverso un vecchio film di zombie sovietico, e per metà poster di propaganda sovietici animati.”
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From this perspective one can understand the formulation of a medieval couplet that at first sight appears rather disconcerting: littera gesta docet - quid credas allegoria cf.
Zenit: Benedict XVI on the Roots of European Culture papabear 2008
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From this perspective one can understand the formulation of a medieval couplet that at first sight appears rather disconcerting: littera gesta docet - quid credas allegoria cf.
Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008
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Another Platonic strain comes out in Philo's Legum allegoria (I, 29, 91-92), where he says that we may think of God as the soul of the whole.
MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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Who would ever have imagined that the brief narrative of Hagar's dismissal from the house of Abraham at Sarah's instance, was the allegoria of so Divine a thing as St. Paul declares; -- the two Mothers setting forth the two Covenants,
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From this perspective one can understand the formulation of a medieval couplet that at first sight appears rather disconcerting: littera gesta docet - quid credas allegoria …
Stony Creek Digest 2008
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_allegoria_ and fight vnder the banner of dissimulation.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Il video è una allegoria che esplora gli ostacoli dell’amore.
No Fat Clips!!! : TELEMETRY ORCHESTRA – Under the Cherry Tree 2006
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Or when ye giue a mocke vnder smooth and lowly wordes as he that hard one call him all to nought and say, thou are sure to be hanged ere thou dye: quoth th'other very soberly Sir I know your maistership speakes but in iest, the Greeks call it (charientismus) we may call it the priuy nippe, or a myld and appeasing mockery: all these be souldiers to the figure allegoria and fight vnder the banner of dissimulation.
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V, 7. fequitur* txctdit) eleganf allegoria: vtrumque enun ver - bum de curiu ad certam metaoi vfurpatur proprie.
Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs Propertius, Sextus 1777
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