History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 1205 pages |
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... and with the state of society . Since Fiction may be regarded as select and highly coloured history , those adventures would 1 De Aug. Scient . lib . ii . p . 1 . naturally form the basis of it which had already come 2 INTRODUCTION .
... and with the state of society . Since Fiction may be regarded as select and highly coloured history , those adventures would 1 De Aug. Scient . lib . ii . p . 1 . naturally form the basis of it which had already come 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... adventures . The History of Fiction , therefore , becomes , in a con- siderable degree , interesting to the philosopher , and occu- pies an important place in the history of the progress of society . By contemplating the fables of a ...
... adventures . The History of Fiction , therefore , becomes , in a con- siderable degree , interesting to the philosopher , and occu- pies an important place in the history of the progress of society . By contemplating the fables of a ...
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... adventures , seems to have been the first author who gained any celebrity by this species of composition . Of the romances , however , which were written previous to the appearance of the Theagenes and Chariclea of Heliodorus , I am ...
... adventures , seems to have been the first author who gained any celebrity by this species of composition . Of the romances , however , which were written previous to the appearance of the Theagenes and Chariclea of Heliodorus , I am ...
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... adventures ; yet , to judge from that author's abridg- ment , it seems to have contained a series of the most improbable incidents . But though filled with the most trifling and incredible narrations , it is deserving of atten- tion ...
... adventures ; yet , to judge from that author's abridg- ment , it seems to have contained a series of the most improbable incidents . But though filled with the most trifling and incredible narrations , it is deserving of atten- tion ...
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... adventures , and those he had heard from Dercyllis , to Cymba , who had been sent to Tyre by the Arcadians to prevail on him to return to his native country . The account of these adventures is , at the beginning of the romance ...
... adventures , and those he had heard from Dercyllis , to Cymba , who had been sent to Tyre by the Arcadians to prevail on him to return to his native country . The account of these adventures is , at the beginning of the romance ...
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