The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... figure with the church fleeing from Antichrist to find safety in a place that symbolized her first habitation among ... figures whose sensory deficiencies declare their need for the grace that roots out sin and enables perception of ...
... figure with the church fleeing from Antichrist to find safety in a place that symbolized her first habitation among ... figures whose sensory deficiencies declare their need for the grace that roots out sin and enables perception of ...
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... figure of a choric round dance for the heavenly motions goes back to the choruses of the Athenian drama (eg, Euripides Ion 1074–86) and Plato's Timaeus 40c and Epinomis 982E. Spenser's figure is particularly anticipated in the triple ...
... figure of a choric round dance for the heavenly motions goes back to the choruses of the Athenian drama (eg, Euripides Ion 1074–86) and Plato's Timaeus 40c and Epinomis 982E. Spenser's figure is particularly anticipated in the triple ...
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... figure of the twelfth-century Neoplatonic revival of learning in France. He is best known for his two Latin allegories, De planctu Naturae (The Complaint of Nature) and Anticlaudianus. In sixteenth-century England, he was also reputed ...
... figure of the twelfth-century Neoplatonic revival of learning in France. He is best known for his two Latin allegories, De planctu Naturae (The Complaint of Nature) and Anticlaudianus. In sixteenth-century England, he was also reputed ...
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... figure this name is that its reversal might dramatize the confession of inadequacy which Augustine sees in the rationalistic ethics of the Stoics: although it pins its hopes on this life alone ('loves to live'), it concedes that this ...
... figure this name is that its reversal might dramatize the confession of inadequacy which Augustine sees in the rationalistic ethics of the Stoics: although it pins its hopes on this life alone ('loves to live'), it concedes that this ...
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... figure for the married state of love, 'goodly womanhed,' in FQ III and IV. She is the twin of Belphoebe, the figure for virginity;
... figure for the married state of love, 'goodly womanhed,' in FQ III and IV. She is the twin of Belphoebe, the figure for virginity;
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