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Or, again, the Seasons pass like figures on some frieze of Mantegna, to which, by divine accident, has been added the glow of Titian's colouring [1] (v. 737): -- it ver et Venus, et veris prænuntius ante pennatus graditur zephyrus, vestigia propter
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Or, again, the Seasons pass like figures on some frieze of Mantegna, to which, by divine accident, has been added the glow of Titian's colouring [1] (v. 737): -- it ver et Venus, et veris prænuntius ante pennatus graditur zephyrus, vestigia propter
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Spenser ‘zephyrus’, and not ‘zephyr’; so ‘interstitium’ (Fuller) preceded ‘interstice’; ‘philtrum’ (Culverwell) ‘philtre’; ‘expansum’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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