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... example of this vine , for you flee wedlock and you do not trouble to be joined to another . ” In Ovid's tale the natural objects become rhetorical tools : Vertum- nus makes the mutually beneficial marriage of vine and elm a moral example ...
... example of this vine , for you flee wedlock and you do not trouble to be joined to another . ” In Ovid's tale the natural objects become rhetorical tools : Vertum- nus makes the mutually beneficial marriage of vine and elm a moral example ...
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... example from each of these categories must stand for many . During the unfolding of the amor of Pyramus and Thisbe , the narrator interrupts the description of the " chink ” in the wall , which Shakespeare immortalized in A Midsummer ...
... example from each of these categories must stand for many . During the unfolding of the amor of Pyramus and Thisbe , the narrator interrupts the description of the " chink ” in the wall , which Shakespeare immortalized in A Midsummer ...
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... example , a scene of gracious feasting is followed by a foreboding of disaster . As in the Ovidian example , the language of pleasure ( “ indulgent , ” " familiar , " " Venial " ) stands close to the language of loss . Ovid's expansion ...
... example , a scene of gracious feasting is followed by a foreboding of disaster . As in the Ovidian example , the language of pleasure ( “ indulgent , ” " familiar , " " Venial " ) stands close to the language of loss . Ovid's expansion ...
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