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  • _ -- Dr. Lightfoot, again, omits to state that I do not cite this writer like the others, but by a "Cf." merely suggest a reference to his remarks.

    A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays Walter R. Cassels 1866

  • Dr. Lightfoot omits to mention that I do not refer to Bleek directly, but by "Cf." merely request consideration of his opinions.

    A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays Walter R. Cassels 1866

  • 'Cf.' too the Song of the Parcae in Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris', iv.,

    The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • "SONNET XXII": Cf. "the fierce tempest of my fev'rish soul": VII, 2.

    Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

  • "Love the tyrant": Cf. "tyrant passion": III, 14 and "in the heart the Tyrant lives enshrined": XVII, 8.

    Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

  • "With od'rous wreaths of constant myrtle drest": Cf. "leaves of glossy myrtle bind the vest": XIII, 10.

    Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

  • "Love's frequent sighs the flutt'ring sails shall swell": Cf. "Cupid for thee shall spread the swelling sails": Pope, l.

    Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

  • "Thus steals the languid fountain of my heart": Cf. "Love steals unheeded o'er the tranquil mind": XVII, 1.

    Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

  • "Love steals unheeded o'er the tranquil mind": Cf. "Thus steals the languid fountain of my heart": VIII, 2.

    Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

  • [A discussion of the date of the | reference to establish the important beginning of Trajan's Parthian | point of the date of the Parthian war, which he fixes in A.D. 115, | war and Trajan's visit to Antioch. but he decides nothing directly | Dr. Westcott omits the "Cf." as to the time of Ignatius '| martyrdom.] |

    A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays Walter R. Cassels 1866

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