Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... distinctive feature ” of the English political prophecy is the use of animals and birds as symbols to represent men and women . ... a white dragon , representing the Saxons , fights with a red dragon who represents the Britons .
... distinctive feature ” of the English political prophecy is the use of animals and birds as symbols to represent men and women . ... a white dragon , representing the Saxons , fights with a red dragon who represents the Britons .
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quills Returne to England , The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie , and An Almond for a Parrat , represent Martin and ... in Strange Newes , represents Gabriel Harvey as having “ put on wolues raiment already , seduced manie simple peo ...
quills Returne to England , The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie , and An Almond for a Parrat , represent Martin and ... in Strange Newes , represents Gabriel Harvey as having “ put on wolues raiment already , seduced manie simple peo ...
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Greene , in A Quip for an Vpstart Courtier , calls usurers “ Cormorantes ” and represents a farmer as “ a Cormorant of the common wealth , and a wretch that liues of the spoile of the needy , " 254 one of those " very Cormorants of the ...
Greene , in A Quip for an Vpstart Courtier , calls usurers “ Cormorantes ” and represents a farmer as “ a Cormorant of the common wealth , and a wretch that liues of the spoile of the needy , " 254 one of those " very Cormorants of the ...
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