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  • Neither does he feem to cool in the fhort account that he gives, in the next place, of the pafiion of Apollo for the Nymph Rhodes, from whom the ifland received its name, and from whom were defcended its original inhabitants (whom jull before the Poet therefore called the fons of Apollo): and particularly the three brothers, Camirus, Lindus, and Jalyfus; who divided that country into three kingdoms, and built the three principal cities which retained their names.

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

  • P Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12: 40 AM EST hey megan, hope your "fons" will be able to help you pay your bills when this is all over. there's no record deal for you. you are a wannabe, and if i go to an idol tour stop this year, your set = bathroom break. honestly, i catch a single note from you, and i'll need to vomit. your cocky attitude, your spastic dancing, and your spazzoid behavior gets worse and worse every week.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • El Taller de Creativitat de Jacob: Al fons de la bota

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the first significant steps towards becoming the fons et origo of jazz improvisation: not just the first of the music's major solo voices, emerging loud and clear and unmistakably individual from the collective polyphony of early New Orleans jazz, but the figure who first revealed the inherent nobility of an idiom born in the humblest of material circumstances.

    Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

  • El Taller de Creativitat de Jacob: Al fons de la bota

    hume va 10 Hot TOP News admin 2009

  • Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the first significant steps towards becoming the fons et origo of jazz improvisation: not just the first of the music's major solo voices, emerging loud and clear and unmistakably individual from the collective polyphony of early New Orleans jazz, but the figure who first revealed the inherent nobility of an idiom born in the humblest of material circumstances.

    Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

  • The first place finisher (12,100 votes) was Mike Quigley, a Cook County commissioner best known for having quarreled with the Stroger dynasty, second only to the Daleys as fons et origo of Chicagoland corruption.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the first significant steps towards becoming the fons et origo of jazz improvisation: not just the first of the music's major solo voices, emerging loud and clear and unmistakably individual from the collective polyphony of early New Orleans jazz, but the figure who first revealed the inherent nobility of an idiom born in the humblest of material circumstances.

    Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

  • But we can, and should, go back even further, to the fons et origo of this sort of thing: the coterie of literary wingnuts who have insisted that Shakespeare was simply too oafish, ill-educated and country-bred to write the plays attributed to him.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • The first place finisher (12,100 votes) was Mike Quigley, a Cook County commissioner best known for having quarreled with the Stroger dynasty, second only to the Daleys as fons et origo of Chicagoland corruption.

    Illinois Politics 2010

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