The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... moral shadows that are never illumined, although the concord among them is conclusive and convincing. Amoret and the reader, however, learn a healthy suspicion of appearances. It is little wonder, then, that this episode is most often ...
... moral shadows that are never illumined, although the concord among them is conclusive and convincing. Amoret and the reader, however, learn a healthy suspicion of appearances. It is little wonder, then, that this episode is most often ...
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... 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 invariably negative, though ...
... 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 invariably negative, though ...
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... moral, many events in the Homeric poems were given scientific or ethical meanings. Thus the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite, which is exposed when they are caught in the net of Hephaestus, was interpreted as an allegory of the divine ...
... moral, many events in the Homeric poems were given scientific or ethical meanings. Thus the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite, which is exposed when they are caught in the net of Hephaestus, was interpreted as an allegory of the divine ...
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... moral [sense] what you should do, the anagogy where you are headed' PLat 113: cols 280 and 33c; Lubac 1959–64, 1:23). All three levels beyond the literal are called allegorical in a general sense. But the typological relation between ...
... moral [sense] what you should do, the anagogy where you are headed' PLat 113: cols 280 and 33c; Lubac 1959–64, 1:23). All three levels beyond the literal are called allegorical in a general sense. But the typological relation between ...
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... moral allegories referring to the unifying theme: the pagan knights represent vices in Agramante, the Christian knights virtues in Charlemagne. No such comprehensive scheme troubled Ariosto, and those parts of his poem that are ...
... moral allegories referring to the unifying theme: the pagan knights represent vices in Agramante, the Christian knights virtues in Charlemagne. No such comprehensive scheme troubled Ariosto, and those parts of his poem that are ...
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