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A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)

Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 188

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176 NEW LIGHT ON THE RENAISSANCE which must blur the margin with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with … Fig. 364. — Initial. London, 17th century. words set in delightful proportion either accompanied with or prepared for the well enchanting skill of Music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner, and pretending…

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