"Italic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Romantic spirit to assimilate the Classic mannerism—essays no less interesting than those of Boiardo in poetry, of Botticelli in painting, of Donatello and Omodei in sculpture—all of them alike, whether buildings, poems, paintings, or statues, displaying the genius of the Italic race, renascent, recalcitrant against the Gothic style, while still to some extent swayed by its influence (at one and the same time both Christian and chivalrous, Pagan and precociously cynical; yet charmingly fresh, unspoiled by dogma, ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
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... "Aristotle's Art of Poetry" is printed in italic font with plain font used for emphasis. For ease of reading, the transcriber has used underscore to represent the plain text. In all other sections of this document, underscore is used to represent ...
— The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry • Andre Dacier
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... northern Slavs (e.g., Bohemians and Poles) are equally good representatives. The distribution of these "Alpine" populations corresponds in part to that of the old continental "Celts," whose language has everywhere given way to Italic, Germanic, and Slavic pressure. We shall do well to avoid speaking of a "Celtic race," but if we were driven to give the term a content, it would probably be more appropriate to apply it to, roughly, the western portion of ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir
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... point of importance however is the position of [Greek: ede]: which is claimed for ver. 35 by the great mass of the copies: as well as by Origen[62], Eusebius[63], Chrysostom[64], Cyril[65], the Vulgate, Jerome of course, and the Syriac. The Italic copies are hopelessly divided here[66]: and Codd. [Symbol: Aleph]BM[Symbol: Pi] do not help us. But [Greek: ede] is claimed for ver. 36 by CDEL, 33, and by the Curetonian and Lewis ( [Greek: kai ede ho therizon]): while Codex A is singular in beginning ver. 36, [Greek: ede kai],—which shews that ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
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... disorderly or frantic haste, nor utter confused shouts, but striking their arms to a certain measure, and advancing all in regular line, they often called out their name Ambrones, either to encourage one another or to terrify the Romans by this announcement. The Ligurians,[85] who were the first of the Italic people to go down to battle with them, hearing their shouts, and understanding what they said, responded by calling out their old national name, which was the same, for the Ligurians also call themselves Ambrones when they refer to their origin. Thus the shouts were continual on ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long
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