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  • Or as it is in these two verses where one speaking of _Cupids_ bowe, deciphered thereby the nature of sensual loue, whose beginning is more pleasant than the end, thus allegorically and by _antitheton_.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • In Or. xliii., he says of Basil that ta prota tes helikias upo to patri ... sparganoutai kai diaplattetai plasin ten aristen te kai katharotaten, hen hemerinen ho theios Dabid kalos onouazei kai tes nuchterines antitheton.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Or as it is in these verses where one speaking of Cupids bowe, deciphered, thereby the nature of sensual loue, whose beginning is more pleasant than the end, thus allegorically and by antitheton.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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