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... Orpheus appears as a figure of the rhetorician rather than the poet . Arguing for the merits of sportive exercises , the Miltonic speaker of the Sixth Prolusion ( 1628 ) play- fully claims that his situation is superior to that of Orpheus ...
... Orpheus appears as a figure of the rhetorician rather than the poet . Arguing for the merits of sportive exercises , the Miltonic speaker of the Sixth Prolusion ( 1628 ) play- fully claims that his situation is superior to that of Orpheus ...
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... Orpheus , ... ( 10.50-64 ) Rhodopean Orpheus then received Eurydice , and with her this condi- tion : that he not turn his eyes backward until he had left the vale of Avernus , or else the gift would be in vain . . . . And now they ap ...
... Orpheus , ... ( 10.50-64 ) Rhodopean Orpheus then received Eurydice , and with her this condi- tion : that he not turn his eyes backward until he had left the vale of Avernus , or else the gift would be in vain . . . . And now they ap ...
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... Orpheus , who with his singing , not his lyre , held streams spellbound and gave ears to the oak trees and moved lifeless spirits to tears . It is to his singing that he owes his high praise . Orpheus merits the favorable comparison by ...
... Orpheus , who with his singing , not his lyre , held streams spellbound and gave ears to the oak trees and moved lifeless spirits to tears . It is to his singing that he owes his high praise . Orpheus merits the favorable comparison by ...
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