Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to
Phoebe orPhoebus - adjective rare Of or relating to the
Sun .Solar .
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Examples
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The Second part, _The delights of the Muses_, or Poems upon several occasions, both English and Latin; such rich pregnant Fancies as shewed his Breast to be filled with _Phoebean_
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Phoebean tripod, the river Cydnus, and the epigraphs 'Neos
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Light falling upon carved forms of gods and heroes, bathing clear-cut columns and sharp basreliefs in simple lustre, was enough for the Phoebean rites of Hellas.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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There is something pathetic in the retirement of the grey-haired Perugino from Rome, to make way for the victorious Phoebean beauty of the boy Raphael.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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Phoebean tripod, the river Cydnus, and the epigraphs 'Neos
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Light falling upon carved forms of gods and heroes, bathing clear-cut columns and sharp basreliefs in simple lustre, was enough for the Phoebean rites of Hellas.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Phoebean singer; to him the Renaissance reveals her joy and dowers him with her gift of melody.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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May it not have been that he was a youth of more than ordinary promise, gifted with intellectual enthusiasms proportioned to his beauty and endowed with something of Phoebean inspiration, who, had he survived, might have even inaugurated a new age for the world, or have emulated the heroism of Hypatia in a hopeless cause?
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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May it not have been that he was a youth of more than ordinary promise, gifted with intellectual enthusiasms proportioned to his beauty and endowed with something of Phoebean inspiration, who, had he survived, might have even inaugurated a new age for the world, or have emulated the heroism of Hypatia in a hopeless cause?
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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_Phoebean dart_, a ray of the sun, Phoebus being the god of the sun. l.
Keats: Poems Published in 1820 John Keats 1808
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