The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... symbolic plan organized by God: events recorded in the Old Testament have been made to happen so as to foreshadow incidents in the life of Christ as these are set down in the New Testament. Abraham's sacrifice of a ram instead of his ...
... symbolic plan organized by God: events recorded in the Old Testament have been made to happen so as to foreshadow incidents in the life of Christ as these are set down in the New Testament. Abraham's sacrifice of a ram instead of his ...
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... symbolic portrayal of the contemporary world and to moral comment on its political and religious issues. This dimension of his poetry has generally been called the 'historical allegory.' The term is misleading, however, especially if it ...
... symbolic portrayal of the contemporary world and to moral comment on its political and religious issues. This dimension of his poetry has generally been called the 'historical allegory.' The term is misleading, however, especially if it ...
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... Symbolic Mode of the “Epithalamion”' MLR 61:163–74; Nohrnberg 1976; Charles Phythian-Adams 1972 'Ceremony and the Citizen: The Communal Year at Coventry, 1450–1550' in Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500–1700 ed Peter Clark and Paul ...
... Symbolic Mode of the “Epithalamion”' MLR 61:163–74; Nohrnberg 1976; Charles Phythian-Adams 1972 'Ceremony and the Citizen: The Communal Year at Coventry, 1450–1550' in Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500–1700 ed Peter Clark and Paul ...
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... symbolic meanings of these apples too specifically, for they indicate generally worldly goals, the gaining of which may bring grief or disaster. Elsewhere apples are associated with true beauty and healthy life. Those which grow in ...
... symbolic meanings of these apples too specifically, for they indicate generally worldly goals, the gaining of which may bring grief or disaster. Elsewhere apples are associated with true beauty and healthy life. Those which grow in ...
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... Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance (London) pp 34–5, 46–55; and Wind 1958:19, 61–2, 236–8. The fullest discussion of the religious aspects of the conclusion of the novel is in Apuleius ed 1975. See also Phyllis B ...
... Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance (London) pp 34–5, 46–55; and Wind 1958:19, 61–2, 236–8. The fullest discussion of the religious aspects of the conclusion of the novel is in Apuleius ed 1975. See also Phyllis B ...
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