Voltaire's Romances. Вольтер

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СКАЧАТЬ Alexander Pope are certainly as respectable a list of references as the most aristocratic greyhound could desire. – E.

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The nine daughters of Pierus, king of Emathia, were called Pierides. They entered into a contest with the Muses, and being conquered were metamorphosed into birds. – E.

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The doctrine of metempsychosis must be relied upon to explain this seeming anachronism. – E.

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Having large, full, finely rounded eyes. In Homer, always applied to females, and most frequently to the goddess Juno, as a point of majestic beauty. – E.