The story of Baucis and Philemon is in Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
How idly I talk; 'tis because the story pleases me – none in Ovid so much. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
The shape: in Ovid's phrase, a poem is an imago vocis, an image of the voice. From Wordnik.com. [Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
Today, Ovid is laughing his head off in my library, free for ever from all Caesars, including the Caesar of. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of The Cycle] Reference
Ezbekiyah Gardens every evening and explain Ovid’s Words. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Ovid is parallel’d by the song of Al-Záhir al-Jazari (Ibn. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Knowing is one thing and practice is another to paraphrase Ovid entirely. From Wordnik.com. [a method betrayed] Reference
P. Ovidius Naso -- commonly known as Ovid -- was born at Sulmo, about, ninety miles from Rome, in the year 43 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
I've used other reference management tools that cope very poorly with the concept of "Ovid" or "Peter of Celle" with no surname as authors. From Wordnik.com. [Continued Success with Zotero and Another Nifty Freeware Gadget] Reference
Anguillara's "Ovid" may be excepted, which is read with eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
Comparisons (r); and electronic information providers, such as Ovid (r), UpToDate (r). From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
How Mr. Deane could spend with a boy who had translated so much of "Ovid" some months over a small part of. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation®. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
"Ovid," said Pansy, sharply, "there's nothing wrong with you except that -- you haven't enough brains all by yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Scattergood Baines] Reference
"Ovid," said Pansy, "you've been hanging around my counter a good deal -- and asking me to dinners, and to go driving on Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Scattergood Baines] Reference
September 11 made Ovid seem more relevant than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of Ovid] Reference
Though Ovid was a merry man, love ever kept him sad. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Then came Ovid, laurel-crowned, and began to sing. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Roman feast of the dead, the Feralia, of which Ovid wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
After his death, Ovid wrote him a fine elegy (p. 115); and Domitius. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
Orpheus calls Somnus the happy king of gods and men; and Ovid, who gives. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Latin school, could "spout" the rhythmic lines of Ovid, Virgil, Horace or. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
We learn from Ovid that this goddess was of that class which they anciently called. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Faunus is described by Ovid with horns on his head, and crowned with the pine tree. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
He had learned more out of Ovid than from the Fathers of Divinity, you may believe. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
His writings, like those of Ovid, come therefore rather into the period of the empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Ovid says, that her Greek name was Chloris, and that the Latins changed it into Flora. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
His courtship of Pomōna makes one of the most elegant and entertaining stories in Ovid. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
The language of Livy and Ovid derived fresh impulse from the reappearing stars of secular. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Ovid, who says that she was wooed by many orchard-gods, but preferred to remain unmarried. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
The Allen is sending Rubens's "The Finding of Erichthonius," painted around 1632-1633, based on a story from Ovid. From Wordnik.com. [Loan gives Phillips Collection a chance to pair styles, periods and painters] Reference
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