Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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Pliny's Naturalis Historia , like Aristotle's Historia Animalium , contains much unscientific popular animal lore and embodies most of what was known or thought about animals in the first century A.D. Much of Pliny's material is only a ...
Pliny's Naturalis Historia , like Aristotle's Historia Animalium , contains much unscientific popular animal lore and embodies most of what was known or thought about animals in the first century A.D. Much of Pliny's material is only a ...
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The epistle " To the Learned Readers " contains a " Catalogue of the Authors which haue wrote of Beasts , " wherein are listed some 286 Hebrew , Greek , Latin , German , Italian , and French authors and works .
The epistle " To the Learned Readers " contains a " Catalogue of the Authors which haue wrote of Beasts , " wherein are listed some 286 Hebrew , Greek , Latin , German , Italian , and French authors and works .
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In his Ephemerides of Phialo ( 1579 ) , which contains an Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse , Gosson expresses the wish that as the bear licks her newborn cubs into shape he may be able to put his thoughts into words that will convey his ...
In his Ephemerides of Phialo ( 1579 ) , which contains an Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse , Gosson expresses the wish that as the bear licks her newborn cubs into shape he may be able to put his thoughts into words that will convey his ...
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