Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... Greek - Cynegetica , consisting of four books on hunting , and Halieutica , consisting of five books on fishing — by Oppian ; Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium , a description in Latin prose of curiosities concerning animals , by Solinus ...
... Greek - Cynegetica , consisting of four books on hunting , and Halieutica , consisting of five books on fishing — by Oppian ; Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium , a description in Latin prose of curiosities concerning animals , by Solinus ...
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... Greek and Roman mythology and from Aesopic material . The conflict in which a knight overcame a dragon , a lion , or ... Greek and Roman mythology . One easily recalls to mind the Bib- lical accounts of Samson and the lion and ...
... Greek and Roman mythology and from Aesopic material . The conflict in which a knight overcame a dragon , a lion , or ... Greek and Roman mythology . One easily recalls to mind the Bib- lical accounts of Samson and the lion and ...
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... Greek models with the excellence of Greek poetry . Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with ...
... Greek models with the excellence of Greek poetry . Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with ...
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Aesopic Aesopic fables animal lore animal symbolism Aristotle Smith Arte of Rhetorique Ascham Giles birds Conny-Catcher conventional ideas creatures Deloney Mann Edward Arber emblem England Arber Ephemerides of Phialo Euphues Arber example fishes Foure-Footed Beastes Gabriel Harvey Golden Aphroditis facsimile Greek Greene Gro Greene Grosart Harvey Grosart haue heraldry Historie of Foure-Footed Historie of Serpents humanistic Huntington Library facsimile ibid ideas about animals John Grange John Lyly Kerrow king Leible lion Lodge Hunterian Club Lyly Bond Nashe Mc Nashe McKerrow Natural History Rack Natural History Rackham Painter Palace of Pleasure Pallace of Pettie Petite Pallace Pettie His Pleasure Phialo Huntington Library Pleasure Hartman Pleasure Jacobs Pliny Political Poems prose literature recto Rhetorique Mair sart School of Abuse shee Sidney Feuillerat sixteenth century Smith and Ross Stephen Gosson story terian Club Thomas Thomas Nashe Topsell verso vertue VIII Wilson's Arte wolf writings