Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... references to animals , brought Hebrew writings to the notice of non - Hebrew readers.2 The most important ancient Greek writer on natural history is Aristotle ( fourth century B.C. ) , who is sometimes referred to as " the founder of ...
... references to animals , brought Hebrew writings to the notice of non - Hebrew readers.2 The most important ancient Greek writer on natural history is Aristotle ( fourth century B.C. ) , who is sometimes referred to as " the founder of ...
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... references of the familiar type . Flatterers are compared to apes that imitate what they see in people , 145 to vultures that stoop only where they smell prey , 146 to moths that eat holes in garments , 147 and to the polypus ( octopus ) ...
... references of the familiar type . Flatterers are compared to apes that imitate what they see in people , 145 to vultures that stoop only where they smell prey , 146 to moths that eat holes in garments , 147 and to the polypus ( octopus ) ...
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... References are made also to the proverbial horns of cuckoldry . Before the Marprelate controversy there was a general tendency to represent any object of satire as an ape and to speak of the satire itself as " whipping the ape ...
... References are made also to the proverbial horns of cuckoldry . Before the Marprelate controversy there was a general tendency to represent any object of satire as an ape and to speak of the satire itself as " whipping the ape ...
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