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... show several images that figure in Book I of The Faerie Queene . The engraving for Sonet 7 from du Bellay shows the Tiber as river - god and spirit of ancient Rome , crowned with laurel and bearing palm for victory and olive - branch ...
... show several images that figure in Book I of The Faerie Queene . The engraving for Sonet 7 from du Bellay shows the Tiber as river - god and spirit of ancient Rome , crowned with laurel and bearing palm for victory and olive - branch ...
Page 42
... shows the Queen in cosmic setting of four elements . She stands on a map of her island realm , her feet resting on Oxfordshire , thunder on her left , on her right sunlight and clearing air . The last was a theme in the enter- tainment ...
... shows the Queen in cosmic setting of four elements . She stands on a map of her island realm , her feet resting on Oxfordshire , thunder on her left , on her right sunlight and clearing air . The last was a theme in the enter- tainment ...
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... shows that he realized such archaic words had a nucleus of meanings - witness in ' Maye ' the Gloss on Chevisaunce ' sometime of Chaucer used for game : sometime of other for spoile or bootie or enterprise and sometime for chiefdome ...
... shows that he realized such archaic words had a nucleus of meanings - witness in ' Maye ' the Gloss on Chevisaunce ' sometime of Chaucer used for game : sometime of other for spoile or bootie or enterprise and sometime for chiefdome ...
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