Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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The Historie of Foure - Footed Beastes is a voluminous folio work describing " the true and lively figure of euery Beast ” and discussing fully the natural history pertaining to each . The epistle " To the Learned Readers " contains a ...
The Historie of Foure - Footed Beastes is a voluminous folio work describing " the true and lively figure of euery Beast ” and discussing fully the natural history pertaining to each . The epistle " To the Learned Readers " contains a ...
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183 ; - the horse Bucephalus ' refusing to be mounted by anyone but Alexander the Great , Pliny : Natural History ( Rackham ) , III , 109 ; Topsell , Historie of Foure - Footed Beastes , p . 312 ; Works of Greene ( Grosart ) , IX , 289 ...
183 ; - the horse Bucephalus ' refusing to be mounted by anyone but Alexander the Great , Pliny : Natural History ( Rackham ) , III , 109 ; Topsell , Historie of Foure - Footed Beastes , p . 312 ; Works of Greene ( Grosart ) , IX , 289 ...
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LION : its chastisement of the lioness for her adultery with the leopard , Pliny : Natural History ( Rackham ) , III , 33 ; Topsell , Historie of Foure - Footed Beastes , pp . 456-72 ; Painter , The Palace of Pleasure ( Jacobs ) ...
LION : its chastisement of the lioness for her adultery with the leopard , Pliny : Natural History ( Rackham ) , III , 33 ; Topsell , Historie of Foure - Footed Beastes , pp . 456-72 ; Painter , The Palace of Pleasure ( Jacobs ) ...
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