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... creatures discussed . Though Topsell made some attempt to achieve scientific accuracy in his treatment of living creatures , he mingled with what- ever accurate observations he was able to make20 much of the tradi- tional lore which ...
... creatures discussed . Though Topsell made some attempt to achieve scientific accuracy in his treatment of living creatures , he mingled with what- ever accurate observations he was able to make20 much of the tradi- tional lore which ...
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... creatures native to the British Isles ; in the Aesopic fables ; in folk festivals , including mummers ' performances , pageants , and masques ; and in the medieval beast epic , particularly the Reynard cycle . - Any attempt to determine ...
... creatures native to the British Isles ; in the Aesopic fables ; in folk festivals , including mummers ' performances , pageants , and masques ; and in the medieval beast epic , particularly the Reynard cycle . - Any attempt to determine ...
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... creatures just as easily as out of classical and Biblical animal lore . This kind of overlapping is merely an illustration of the difficulty , not to say the impossibility , of knowing where and how some of the conventional ideas about ...
... creatures just as easily as out of classical and Biblical animal lore . This kind of overlapping is merely an illustration of the difficulty , not to say the impossibility , of knowing where and how some of the conventional ideas about ...
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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