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The long popularity of the political prophecy employing animals to mask persons , and of the political poem employing the same method , made English readers familiar ... employed in the Bible , the animal fables , and the bestiaries .
The long popularity of the political prophecy employing animals to mask persons , and of the political poem employing the same method , made English readers familiar ... employed in the Bible , the animal fables , and the bestiaries .
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94 Reptiles , fish , and other creatures are likewise conventionally employed in Pettie's novelle . The proverbial snake in the grass is used in the story of " Scilla and Minos " to show the inexperience of Iphis , who begins fixing ...
94 Reptiles , fish , and other creatures are likewise conventionally employed in Pettie's novelle . The proverbial snake in the grass is used in the story of " Scilla and Minos " to show the inexperience of Iphis , who begins fixing ...
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Wolves and sheep were employed as symbols especially in the Protestant tracts , of which Greene's The Spanish Masquerado ( 1589 ) is one example that may be mentioned in passing . In this tract , Greene , following the usage ...
Wolves and sheep were employed as symbols especially in the Protestant tracts , of which Greene's The Spanish Masquerado ( 1589 ) is one example that may be mentioned in passing . In this tract , Greene , following the usage ...
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| Title | Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
| Author | William Meredith Carroll |
| Publisher | Bookman Associates, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2010 |
| Length | 166 pages |
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