Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... contain much knowledge of living crea- tures obtained from actual observation . But his works also include a great ... contains much unscientific popular ani- mal lore and embodies most of what was known or thought about animals in the ...
... contain much knowledge of living crea- tures obtained from actual observation . But his works also include a great ... contains much unscientific popular ani- mal lore and embodies most of what was known or thought about animals in the ...
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... contain nu- merous drawings , many of which are fairly accurate , of the creatures discussed . Though Topsell made ... contains The Historie of Serpents , which in the style of its contents is much like The Historie of Foure - Footed ...
... contain nu- merous drawings , many of which are fairly accurate , of the creatures discussed . Though Topsell made ... contains The Historie of Serpents , which in the style of its contents is much like The Historie of Foure - Footed ...
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... contains a fairly large number of conventional animal 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 ...
... contains a fairly large number of conventional animal 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 ...
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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