History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 1205 pages |
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... beautiful variety , than can any where be found in nature , is pleasing to the mind . And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue , Fiction corrects it , and presents us with the ...
... beautiful variety , than can any where be found in nature , is pleasing to the mind . And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue , Fiction corrects it , and presents us with the ...
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... beautiful Sinonis . " - Rhodanes visiting this place a short while afterwards , and perceiving the inscription , adds to it , " and also the beautiful Rho- danes , ” ( καὶ Ροδάνης ὁ Καλός , but is prevented from accomplishing his ...
... beautiful Sinonis . " - Rhodanes visiting this place a short while afterwards , and perceiving the inscription , adds to it , " and also the beautiful Rho- danes , ” ( καὶ Ροδάνης ὁ Καλός , but is prevented from accomplishing his ...
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... beautiful -he chiefly delights in minute descriptions of the pomp of embassies and processions , and , as was natural in a priest , of sacrifices , or religious rites . These might be tiresome or even disgusting in a modern novel , but ...
... beautiful -he chiefly delights in minute descriptions of the pomp of embassies and processions , and , as was natural in a priest , of sacrifices , or religious rites . These might be tiresome or even disgusting in a modern novel , but ...
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... beautiful incident of the bee [ ii . 7 ] , which has been adopted by D'Urfé , and by Tasso in his Aminta , where Sylvia having pretended to cure Phyllis , whom a bee had stung , by kissing her , Aminta perceiving this , feigns that he ...
... beautiful incident of the bee [ ii . 7 ] , which has been adopted by D'Urfé , and by Tasso in his Aminta , where Sylvia having pretended to cure Phyllis , whom a bee had stung , by kissing her , Aminta perceiving this , feigns that he ...
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... beautiful , the objects being at once well selected , and so painted as to form in the mind of the reader a distinct and lively image . As examples of his merit in this way may be instanced , his description of a garden [ i . 16 ] , and ...
... beautiful , the objects being at once well selected , and so painted as to form in the mind of the reader a distinct and lively image . As examples of his merit in this way may be instanced , his description of a garden [ i . 16 ] , and ...
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