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Glaucus

handsome, wealthy young Greek pursued by various ladies. [Br. Lit.: The Last Days of Pompeii, Magill I, 490–492]

Glaucus

loses love, Scylla, when she is made monster. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]
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When Endymion first sees Glaucus, the scene interrupts a pages-long meditation about his love for Diana:
37-39), that those fifteen Hopkins lines evoke special Lancastrian pronunciations of a girl's nickname ("Margaret"); recall long-ago Roman Catholic Lancastrian women who shared that girl character's given name; allude meaningfully to a literary encounter of Glaucus and Diomede, in a leafy grove, within the pages of Chapman's Homer; and refer, additionally, to such diverse literary ancestors of Hopkins as Goethe and Dante.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Newly Harvested Stored Actinomycetes & bacteria 4.24 110.80 Total fungi 1.62 48.65 Aspergillus glaucus 0.06 1.36 Other Aspergillus spp.
After becoming separated from her friends Glaucus and Ione, she searches for them amid the burning city.
The packages are based on Digital Glu's Glaucus product line and use the Glaucus servers pre-configured with a website customised to meet the needs of each small business.
("Clarissa: A new Character added in the subsequent Editions, to open more clearly the MORAL of the Poem, in a parody of the speech of Sarpedon to Glaucus in Homer.") Given, in life, this inescapability, and that one, and yet another, Since painted, or not painted, all shall fade, And she who scorns a Man, must die a Maid; What then remains, but well our Pow'r to use, And keep good Humour still whate'er we lose?
The result that Ilyphagus octobranchus appears to be very closely related to Diplocirrus glaucus (bootstrap = 98%) is noteworthy.
Fraser convincingly details Dante's configurations of the womb and of Heaven as analogous, aqueous spaces: in an early stage of development, the fetus is referred to as a fungo marino; trasumanar in Paradiso is likened to Glaucus' metamorphosis into a sea god.
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