History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 1205 pages |
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... poems of the Provençal writers , called likewise romances ; and so , under the equi- voque of a common term , he drops his proper subject , and entertains us with another which had no relation to it except in the name . " Subsequent to ...
... poems of the Provençal writers , called likewise romances ; and so , under the equi- voque of a common term , he drops his proper subject , and entertains us with another which had no relation to it except in the name . " Subsequent to ...
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... poets , whose productions have not descended to us . His work is inscribed to the Latin poet Cornelius Gallus , the ... poems . " narration and expression [ Lucian , Amores , § 1 , and Apuleius , in the introduction to his Metamorphoses ...
... poets , whose productions have not descended to us . His work is inscribed to the Latin poet Cornelius Gallus , the ... poems . " narration and expression [ Lucian , Amores , § 1 , and Apuleius , in the introduction to his Metamorphoses ...
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... poem . Indeed the author mentions a number of writers prior to himself , particularly Antiphanes , from whom he had collected these wonderful relations . Aulus Gellius tells us , that coming on one occasion from Greece to Italy , he ...
... poem . Indeed the author mentions a number of writers prior to himself , particularly Antiphanes , from whom he had collected these wonderful relations . Aulus Gellius tells us , that coming on one occasion from Greece to Italy , he ...
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... poems ; for he knew verses of such power that they produced oblivion of pain , soothed sorrow , and repressed all inordinate appetites . The romance of the Incredible Things beyond Thule was dedicated to the author's sister Isidora ...
... poems ; for he knew verses of such power that they produced oblivion of pain , soothed sorrow , and repressed all inordinate appetites . The romance of the Incredible Things beyond Thule was dedicated to the author's sister Isidora ...
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... poets , from whom he has frequently borrowed . All his comparisons are said to be taken from Homer ; but Sophocles , whom he often imitates , and sometimes ' copies , appears to have been his favourite author . Yet , consider- ing the ...
... poets , from whom he has frequently borrowed . All his comparisons are said to be taken from Homer ; but Sophocles , whom he often imitates , and sometimes ' copies , appears to have been his favourite author . Yet , consider- ing the ...
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