Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... writings about animals are the Aesopic and Bidpai fables and the Greek and Roman works on natural his- tory . The Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible ( first century B.C. ) , with its many references to animals , brought Hebrew writings ...
... writings about animals are the Aesopic and Bidpai fables and the Greek and Roman works on natural his- tory . The Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible ( first century B.C. ) , with its many references to animals , brought Hebrew writings ...
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... writings formed an almost in- exhaustible storehouse for historian and philosopher alike , " the age being " characterized by no diffidence or moderation in borrowing " ; and that " Plutarch's aphorisms and his anecdotes meet us at ...
... writings formed an almost in- exhaustible storehouse for historian and philosopher alike , " the age being " characterized by no diffidence or moderation in borrowing " ; and that " Plutarch's aphorisms and his anecdotes meet us at ...
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... writing of the period 1550-1600 . If all the conventional ideas about animals were taken out of the Elizabethan prose writings , the concreteness , the picturesqueness , the color , the quaintness , the variety , and the charm of the ...
... writing of the period 1550-1600 . If all the conventional ideas about animals were taken out of the Elizabethan prose writings , the concreteness , the picturesqueness , the color , the quaintness , the variety , and the charm of the ...
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Aesopic Aesopic fables animal lore animal symbolism Aristotle Smith Arte of Rhetorique Ascham Giles birds Conny-Catcher conventional ideas creatures Deloney Mann dragon Edward Arber emblem England Arber Ephemerides of Phialo Euphues Arber example fishes Foure-Footed Beastes Gabriel Harvey Golden Aphroditis facsimile Greene Gro Greene Grosart Harvey Grosart haue heraldry Historie of Foure-Footed Historie of Serpents humanistic Huntington Library facsimile ibid ideas about animals John Grange John Lyly Kerrow king Leible lion Lodge Hunterian Club Lyly Bond Nashe Mc Nashe McKerrow Natural History Rack Natural History Rackham Painter Palace of Pleasure Pallace of Pettie Petite Pallace Pettie His Pleasure Phialo Huntington Library Pleasure Hartman Pleasure Jacobs Pliny Political Poems prose literature recto Rhetorique Mair sart School of Abuse shee Sidney Feuillerat sixteenth century Smith and Ross Stephen Gosson story terian Club Thomas Thomas Nashe Topsell verso vertue VIII Wilson's Arte wolf writings