But it is the Ovidian scenes to which one returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana and Other Delights] Reference

To future readers I would only say, in Ovidian phrase: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Ovidian allusions are those to the story of Philomela, so pervasive in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

The lovers arrange a secret meeting in the Ovidian story of Pyramus and Thisbe that Shakespeare parodied so deliriously in A Midsummer Night's Dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Her Ovidian fascinations did make me think sometimes that when she did fall in love it would be dramatic and intense and that she would embrace the role.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy] Reference

The monolithic pretensions of Augustan Rome may likewise have influenced the strongly allegorical cast of Vergi lian and Ovidian poetry, so different from Homer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

He was a man of some reading, as his use of Ovidian or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

(or rather Ovidian) image of the "panting Wood-nymph.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape] Reference

Pseudo-Ovidian matter and of French fableaux, dits, etc., shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Again, his average level is high, higher than that of any post-Ovidian poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

But there is often a sort of Ovidian point in the diction which seems misplaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05] Reference

All these queens and heroines of history and tragedy have rather an Ovidian than a.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference

Unlike the majority of post-Augustan poets, Juvenal is almost untouched by the Ovidian influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

In addition to her lectures, St. Louisans will have the opportunity to see her Ovidian adaptation of.    From Wordnik.com.  [WUSTL Record: University News] Reference

Yesterday and today amusing myself with Ovidian extracts and quotations -- no paper from Canton tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864,] Reference

Ovidian form of connecting the unseen powers moving in nature with human sympathies of love or reverence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

The work is clearly post-Ovidian and must therefore be attributed to the principates of Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, or Nero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

His guesswork was on a par with that of the schoolboys who introduce 'Stirlingia' or 'Liverpolia' into their Ovidian elegiacs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science in Arcady] Reference

This feature in Virgil's verse, which might be illustrated at far greater length, reappears under another form in the Ovidian elegiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

It would undoubtedly be fatuous exaggeration to ascribe a very high place in literature to these little Ovidian fancies of Mrs. Shelley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpine and Midas] Reference

Homer doubtless owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character; but to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference

Homer, doubtless, owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character; but to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference

FIRST STEPS TO LATIN VERSIFICATION, being an Analysis of the Scansion and Structure of the Ovidian Verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850] Reference

Letter-Writer "or the" Elegant Extracts, "and a quire of rose-edged paper, Losely sat down to Ovidian composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

Ovidian and Dantesque mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

Homer with Ovidian graces. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

Page 297, Volume 3 vivid Ovidian description (Works, ed. Hebel, II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference