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... Round Table - Merlin - Saint- Graal - Perceval - Lancelot du Lac - Meliadus - Tristan - Isaie le Triste - Artus - Gyron - Perceforest - Artus de la Bretagne -Cleriadus • CHAPTER IV . 92 36 114 Romances of chivalry relating to ...
... Round Table - Merlin - Saint- Graal - Perceval - Lancelot du Lac - Meliadus - Tristan - Isaie le Triste - Artus - Gyron - Perceforest - Artus de la Bretagne -Cleriadus • CHAPTER IV . 92 36 114 Romances of chivalry relating to ...
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... round his dwelling . In like manner , among the mixed events of human life , he experiences some which are peculiarly grateful , and of which the narrative at once pleases him- self , and excites in the minds of his hearers a kindred ...
... round his dwelling . In like manner , among the mixed events of human life , he experiences some which are peculiarly grateful , and of which the narrative at once pleases him- self , and excites in the minds of his hearers a kindred ...
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... round the globe , he at length reaches Thule [ c . 2 ] . Here he forms an acquaintance with Dercyllis , the heroine of the romance , who had been driven from Tyre along with 1 Αντώνιου Διογένους των ὑπὲρ Θούλην ἄπιστων λογοί . For a ...
... round the globe , he at length reaches Thule [ c . 2 ] . Here he forms an acquaintance with Dercyllis , the heroine of the romance , who had been driven from Tyre along with 1 Αντώνιου Διογένους των ὑπὲρ Θούλην ἄπιστων λογοί . For a ...
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... round the place of execution , a messenger arrives with intelli- gence that Sinonis is about to be espoused by the king of Syria , into whose dominions she had ultimately escaped . Rhodanes is taken down from the cross , and appointed ...
... round the place of execution , a messenger arrives with intelli- gence that Sinonis is about to be espoused by the king of Syria , into whose dominions she had ultimately escaped . Rhodanes is taken down from the cross , and appointed ...
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... rounded , he satiated himself with the sweets which were dropping from the boughs . Here the unicorn typifies death , by which all men are pursued ; the pit is the world , full of evils ; the shrub , of which the root was corroded by ...
... rounded , he satiated himself with the sweets which were dropping from the boughs . Here the unicorn typifies death , by which all men are pursued ; the pit is the world , full of evils ; the shrub , of which the root was corroded by ...
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