The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... true church (i 4–5, 12–13; iii argument) and links her with the woman of Revelation 12, 'clothed with the sunne.' Protestant readers usually identified this luminous figure with the church fleeing from Antichrist to find safety in a ...
... true church (i 4–5, 12–13; iii argument) and links her with the woman of Revelation 12, 'clothed with the sunne.' Protestant readers usually identified this luminous figure with the church fleeing from Antichrist to find safety in a ...
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... true shepherd and the true door. Prciestant authors often attacked monasteries for establishing themselves as markets of merits earned by the labors of the inmates and available for purchase by donors. Kirkrapine acts as agent of such ...
... true shepherd and the true door. Prciestant authors often attacked monasteries for establishing themselves as markets of merits earned by the labors of the inmates and available for purchase by donors. Kirkrapine acts as agent of such ...
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... true lover of beauty is bound to do, according to the culminating speech of Castiglione's Courtier (ed 1928:317–18). Castiglione's spokesman is referring to this conceptualization of beauty when he says that 'Beautie is the true ...
... true lover of beauty is bound to do, according to the culminating speech of Castiglione's Courtier (ed 1928:317–18). Castiglione's spokesman is referring to this conceptualization of beauty when he says that 'Beautie is the true ...
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... true, but of all being equally uncertain. Yet it is characteristic of allegory to assume the former and to encourage us to think that the image somehow contains all imaginable meanings in all plausible contexts: uncertainty is conceived ...
... true, but of all being equally uncertain. Yet it is characteristic of allegory to assume the former and to encourage us to think that the image somehow contains all imaginable meanings in all plausible contexts: uncertainty is conceived ...
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... true of its Neoplatonism as well. Spenser persistently 'salvages' negative topoi—the galley sonnet, spring solitude, the hind escaped—in order to give them integrative power. This inclusiveness operates at every level, from the ...
... true of its Neoplatonism as well. Spenser persistently 'salvages' negative topoi—the galley sonnet, spring solitude, the hind escaped—in order to give them integrative power. This inclusiveness operates at every level, from the ...
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