Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... Roger Ascham , and Thomas Wilson regarded the literatures of Greece and Rome as " the storehouses of adequate and eloquent expression , the happy hunting - ground of the right thing to discourse about , and the right way of saying ...
... Roger Ascham , and Thomas Wilson regarded the literatures of Greece and Rome as " the storehouses of adequate and eloquent expression , the happy hunting - ground of the right thing to discourse about , and the right way of saying ...
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25 Commenting upon Italian manners , Ascham says that in Venice it is counted good policy , when there are four to five brothers in one family , “ one only to marry , and all the rest to welter with as little shame in open lechery ...
25 Commenting upon Italian manners , Ascham says that in Venice it is counted good policy , when there are four to five brothers in one family , “ one only to marry , and all the rest to welter with as little shame in open lechery ...
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SWINE : its brutishness , Pliny : Natural History ( Rackham ) , III , 145 ; Works of Ascham ( Giles ) , III , 153 , 156 ; 250 ; Gosson , The Ephemerides of Phialo ( Huntington Library facsimile ) , p . 2 verso ; Lyly , Euphues ( Arber ) ...
SWINE : its brutishness , Pliny : Natural History ( Rackham ) , III , 145 ; Works of Ascham ( Giles ) , III , 153 , 156 ; 250 ; Gosson , The Ephemerides of Phialo ( Huntington Library facsimile ) , p . 2 verso ; Lyly , Euphues ( Arber ) ...
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