Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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Some proverbial expressions that contain rather general allusions to birds represent a kind of conventional by - product of the same animal folklore that is behind the animal symbolism in literature : “ It is a foolish bird that stays ...
Some proverbial expressions that contain rather general allusions to birds represent a kind of conventional by - product of the same animal folklore that is behind the animal symbolism in literature : “ It is a foolish bird that stays ...
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I can recount ... how that the auntient AEgyptians did use to paint out birds & beasts , to the signification of some quallitie of the minde , and therefore they used the shape of a Lyon , to signifie furie , & heate of courage : the ...
I can recount ... how that the auntient AEgyptians did use to paint out birds & beasts , to the signification of some quallitie of the minde , and therefore they used the shape of a Lyon , to signifie furie , & heate of courage : the ...
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182 ; — its parading vainly in other birds ' feathers , Works of Lodge ( Hunterian Club ) , I , ii , 1 ; Works of Greene ( Grosart ) , XII , 144 ; — the crow's foot in the eye ( symbolical of the marks of age ) , Works of Greene ...
182 ; — its parading vainly in other birds ' feathers , Works of Lodge ( Hunterian Club ) , I , ii , 1 ; Works of Greene ( Grosart ) , XII , 144 ; — the crow's foot in the eye ( symbolical of the marks of age ) , Works of Greene ...
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