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a straight shadow, not only on the forehead, but even on the ripples of other curls emerging beneath it: while the publication of plate 41, as a representation of the most beautiful statue in the British Museum, may well arouse any artist's wonder what kind of "diletto" in antiquity it might be, from which the Society assumed its name.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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(Soundbite of aria, Vien diletto from I Puritani) Ms. CALLAS: (Singing in foreign language) NEARY: Callas ability to sing such a wide range of roles was one of the things that led to her meteoric rise.
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(Soundbite of aria, Vien diletto from I Puritani) Ms. CALLAS: (Singing in foreign language) Mr. JAMES JORDEN (Editor, Parterrebox. com): It showed off an extremely high range.
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(Soundbite of aria, Vien diletto from I Puritani) Ms. CALLAS: (Singing in foreign language) NEARY: Callas ability to sing such a wide range of roles was one of the things that led to her meteoric rise.
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(Soundbite of aria, Vien diletto from I Puritani) Ms. CALLAS: (Singing in foreign language) Mr. JAMES JORDEN (Editor, Parterrebox. com): It showed off an extremely high range.
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(Soundbite of aria, Vien diletto from I Puritani) Ms. CALLAS: (Singing in foreign language) NEARY: Callas ability to sing such a wide range of roles was one of the things that led to her meteoric rise.
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(Soundbite of aria, Vien diletto from I Puritani) Ms. CALLAS: (Singing in foreign language) Mr. JAMES JORDEN (Editor, Parterrebox. com): It showed off an extremely high range.
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It might seem strange to think of the mystical Blake engaged in this most deliberately scientific of enterprises, but Greece clearly exerted a mystical pull on Stuart and Revett as well: the antiquarian diletto of these Dilettanti, like the drunken diletto of their comrades, never entirely submitted to the rule of pure reason.
A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Still, there is an evident link between Redford's fine-tuned scholarship and the sense of sheer delight (Italian diletto) that gave its name to the Society of Dilettanti, devoted to the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, when it was formed in 1734.
A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Of the penis succedaneus, that imitation of the Arbor vitæ or Soter Kosmou, which the Latins called phallus and fascinum,409 the French godemiché and the Italians passatempo and diletto (whence our “dildo”), every kind abounds, varying from a stuffed “French letter” to a cone of ribbed horn which looks like an instrument of torture.
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