History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 1205 pages |
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... seems now to be the common idea which is entertained of the value of Fiction . Accordingly , this powerful instrument of virtue and happiness , after having been long despised , on account of the purposes to which it had been made ...
... seems now to be the common idea which is entertained of the value of Fiction . Accordingly , this powerful instrument of virtue and happiness , after having been long despised , on account of the purposes to which it had been made ...
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... seems to have been most early and most generally prevalent in Persia and other Asiatic regions , where the nature of the climate and effeminacy of the in- habitants conspired to promote its cultivation . The people of Asia Minor , who ...
... seems to have been most early and most generally prevalent in Persia and other Asiatic regions , where the nature of the climate and effeminacy of the in- habitants conspired to promote its cultivation . The people of Asia Minor , who ...
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... seems to have been attempted in this style of com- position by the European Greeks ; but the more frequent intercourse which his conquests introduced between the Greek and Asiatic nations , opened at once all the sources of fiction ...
... seems to have been attempted in this style of com- position by the European Greeks ; but the more frequent intercourse which his conquests introduced between the Greek and Asiatic nations , opened at once all the sources of fiction ...
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... seem to have been borrowed from that poem . Indeed the author mentions a number of writers prior to himself ... seems to have been a repository from which Achilles Tatius and succeeding fablers derived the materials of less ...
... seem to have been borrowed from that poem . Indeed the author mentions a number of writers prior to himself ... seems to have been a repository from which Achilles Tatius and succeeding fablers derived the materials of less ...
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... the last moment , and virtue finally obtains its triumph and reward in plenary happiness . ( Ibid . p . 378. ) Diogenes , a considerable period seems to have elapsed without CH . I. ] ANTONIUS DIOGENES - DINIAS AND DERCYLLIS . 15.
... the last moment , and virtue finally obtains its triumph and reward in plenary happiness . ( Ibid . p . 378. ) Diogenes , a considerable period seems to have elapsed without CH . I. ] ANTONIUS DIOGENES - DINIAS AND DERCYLLIS . 15.
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