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Página 232 - It is related that she recommended him to introduce mythical narrations into his poems, and that when, in accordance with her advice, he composed a hymn in which he interwove almost all the Theban mythology, she smiled and said, " "We ought to sow with the hand, and not with the whole sack.
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| Título | A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art student's series] |
| Autor | Sir William Smith |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Harper & Brothers, 1883 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 21 Nov. 2007 |
| Largo | 708 páginas |
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