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... wings in airy stream Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids laid.1 The substance of this passage is mythological . It is practically contained in the epithet ' dewy - feathered . ' The conception of sleep as a dew ...
... wings in airy stream Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids laid.1 The substance of this passage is mythological . It is practically contained in the epithet ' dewy - feathered . ' The conception of sleep as a dew ...
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... wings , in airy stream Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids laid . The pas- these lines has been much disputed . sage among the classics which approaches it most closely is in the Punici of Silius Italicus ( 10. 337 ...
... wings , in airy stream Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids laid . The pas- these lines has been much disputed . sage among the classics which approaches it most closely is in the Punici of Silius Italicus ( 10. 337 ...
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... wings ( Theb . 10. 89 ) . In C. 249 the wings of Silence are distended . STYX , STYGIAN . - P . L. 1. 289 ; 2. 506 , 577 , 875 ; 3. 14 ; 10. 458 ; L'AI . 3 ; C. 182. See Rivers of Hell . SUN . - See Apollo . SYLVAN . - P . L. 4. 707 ...
... wings ( Theb . 10. 89 ) . In C. 249 the wings of Silence are distended . STYX , STYGIAN . - P . L. 1. 289 ; 2. 506 , 577 , 875 ; 3. 14 ; 10. 458 ; L'AI . 3 ; C. 182. See Rivers of Hell . SUN . - See Apollo . SYLVAN . - P . L. 4. 707 ...
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