History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 1205 pages |
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... contained in the library of the Marquis de Paulmy . The work has also been con- tinued in the Nouvelle Bibliothèque des Romans , which comprises abridgments of the most recent productions of the French , English , and German novelists ...
... contained in the library of the Marquis de Paulmy . The work has also been con- tinued in the Nouvelle Bibliothèque des Romans , which comprises abridgments of the most recent productions of the French , English , and German novelists ...
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... contained in the Bibliotheca of Photius . Some years after the composition of the fictitious history of Clearchus , Antonius Diogenes wrote a more perfect romance than had hitherto appeared , founded on the wandering adventures and ...
... contained in the Bibliotheca of Photius . Some years after the composition of the fictitious history of Clearchus , Antonius Diogenes wrote a more perfect romance than had hitherto appeared , founded on the wandering adventures and ...
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... contained a series of the most improbable incidents . But though filled with the most trifling and incredible narrations , it is deserving of atten- tion , as it seems to have been a repository from which Achilles Tatius and succeeding ...
... contained a series of the most improbable incidents . But though filled with the most trifling and incredible narrations , it is deserving of atten- tion , as it seems to have been a repository from which Achilles Tatius and succeeding ...
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... contain many errors , and the fragments not to belong to the Babylonica . Iamblichus , the author of this romance , must not be confounded with either of the Platonic philosophers of that name , both of whom lived in the reign of the ...
... contain many errors , and the fragments not to belong to the Babylonica . Iamblichus , the author of this romance , must not be confounded with either of the Platonic philosophers of that name , both of whom lived in the reign of the ...
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... contain❜d ; To me , who loved her with a faithful mind , Her infant charge she unbaptiz'd consign'd , With tears and sighs she gave thee to my care , Remote from thence the precious pledge to bear ! What tongues her sorrows and her ...
... contain❜d ; To me , who loved her with a faithful mind , Her infant charge she unbaptiz'd consign'd , With tears and sighs she gave thee to my care , Remote from thence the precious pledge to bear ! What tongues her sorrows and her ...
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