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... English prose in the period 1550-1600 were university men , who might know Aristotle in the original and certainly knew Pliny . These English writers ransacked natural history for ideas about animals to illustrate commonplace ...
... English prose in the period 1550-1600 were university men , who might know Aristotle in the original and certainly knew Pliny . These English writers ransacked natural history for ideas about animals to illustrate commonplace ...
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... English versions of Italian and French novelle , chiefly those of Boccaccio , Bandello , Cinthio , Straparola , and Queen Marguerite de Navarre . Some even are English renderings of the French novelle of François de Belleforest , which ...
... English versions of Italian and French novelle , chiefly those of Boccaccio , Bandello , Cinthio , Straparola , and Queen Marguerite de Navarre . Some even are English renderings of the French novelle of François de Belleforest , which ...
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... English and Comparative Literature , No. 37 ) . New York : Columbia University Press , 1911 . THOMS , W. J. ( ed . ) . Early English Prose Romances . New York : E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1908 . THORNDIKE , L. A History of Magic and ...
... English and Comparative Literature , No. 37 ) . New York : Columbia University Press , 1911 . THOMS , W. J. ( ed . ) . Early English Prose Romances . New York : E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1908 . THORNDIKE , L. A History of Magic and ...
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