The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... body, and mind (FQ VI x 23; cf Amoretti 74). Jean Lemaire (1.35) cites the Clementine Recognitions (10.40) to the effect that Paris chose among the Venus of lust, the Pallas of courage, and the Juno of chastity. The identification of ...
... body, and mind (FQ VI x 23; cf Amoretti 74). Jean Lemaire (1.35) cites the Clementine Recognitions (10.40) to the effect that Paris chose among the Venus of lust, the Pallas of courage, and the Juno of chastity. The identification of ...
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... body revealed in the castle of Alma (ix), and, as Joseph Wybarne noted in 1609, 'each part of the body hath some disease sent from the Witch Acrasia, which is intemperance' (Sp All p 119). Her garden and the Bower of Bliss are patterned ...
... body revealed in the castle of Alma (ix), and, as Joseph Wybarne noted in 1609, 'each part of the body hath some disease sent from the Witch Acrasia, which is intemperance' (Sp All p 119). Her garden and the Bower of Bliss are patterned ...
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... body: there is found...the deceit of the Foxe...the scoffinge of the Ape.' The jests of chapter 3 (eg, 'it is saide ... Bodies... From whence came that Opinion of the Waldenses...and of others of later time, about the Eucharist, but of ...
... body: there is found...the deceit of the Foxe...the scoffinge of the Ape.' The jests of chapter 3 (eg, 'it is saide ... Bodies... From whence came that Opinion of the Waldenses...and of others of later time, about the Eucharist, but of ...
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... body is emblematic of moral corruption; and here Timias' 'alchemical' consumption underscores the negative view of his self-destructive passion. Other, more indirect, allusions to alchemy appear in The Faerie Queene. These are ...
... body is emblematic of moral corruption; and here Timias' 'alchemical' consumption underscores the negative view of his self-destructive passion. Other, more indirect, allusions to alchemy appear in The Faerie Queene. These are ...
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... body of Christ and the sacramental symbolism which accompanies it, but with the union of the red and white roses in ... bodies. These 'three dimensions' of matter, deriving ultimately from Aristotle's De caelo, are found in fifteenth ...
... body of Christ and the sacramental symbolism which accompanies it, but with the union of the red and white roses in ... bodies. These 'three dimensions' of matter, deriving ultimately from Aristotle's De caelo, are found in fifteenth ...
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