Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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135 According to Gosson , birds and beasts , even the most witless , show more wisdom than do people in protecting themselves from enemies : “ Aristotle thinketh that in greate windes the Bees carry little stones in their mouthes to ...
135 According to Gosson , birds and beasts , even the most witless , show more wisdom than do people in protecting themselves from enemies : “ Aristotle thinketh that in greate windes the Bees carry little stones in their mouthes to ...
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194 Diogenes prefaces his fable with the description of the “ Griphon ” given by " Isidore in his twenty two of Etymologies . " 195 The usurer , according to Diogenes , " is com9 " a pared to a worme , ” and “ he shall RENAISSANCE NON ...
194 Diogenes prefaces his fable with the description of the “ Griphon ” given by " Isidore in his twenty two of Etymologies . " 195 The usurer , according to Diogenes , " is com9 " a pared to a worme , ” and “ he shall RENAISSANCE NON ...
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225 According to Harvey , such writers as Nashe ' , and Greene “ can tell parlous Tales of Beares and Foxes , as shrewdlye as mother Hubbard . ” 226 Not only the ass and the ape but also the wolf , because of his ravenousness and ...
225 According to Harvey , such writers as Nashe ' , and Greene “ can tell parlous Tales of Beares and Foxes , as shrewdlye as mother Hubbard . ” 226 Not only the ass and the ape but also the wolf , because of his ravenousness and ...
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