Testimony: The artless proof

Renaissance Figures of Speech

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 181-194

  Serjeantson, R W ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511988806.023     Document Type: Chapter

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