Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... called " the German Pliny . " The works on animals printed in the sixteenth century have been rightly called a continuation and outgrowth of medieval en- cyclopedias and a product of further humanistic study of Aristotle , Pliny , and ...
... called " the German Pliny . " The works on animals printed in the sixteenth century have been rightly called a continuation and outgrowth of medieval en- cyclopedias and a product of further humanistic study of Aristotle , Pliny , and ...
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... called " the Phenix of the fairest and moste curteous Ladies within all our Prouince " ; 39 in other words , like the phoenix , she is the only one of her kind in excellence . Her enduring in silence her husband's charges of adultery ...
... called " the Phenix of the fairest and moste curteous Ladies within all our Prouince " ; 39 in other words , like the phoenix , she is the only one of her kind in excellence . Her enduring in silence her husband's charges of adultery ...
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... called a " Basilisk , coloured ouer with pleasure and swetnesse , " whose " sight dispersed his poyson through- out " her lover's heart.50 ... From the Bible and from popular or folk tradition came still other conventional ideas about ...
... called a " Basilisk , coloured ouer with pleasure and swetnesse , " whose " sight dispersed his poyson through- out " her lover's heart.50 ... From the Bible and from popular or folk tradition came still other conventional ideas about ...
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