History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and Sons, 1896 |
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... whole of the present volumes , and which well deserves a peculiar treatise , ) but merely to consider the different fictions in prose , which have been given to the world under the name of romance or novel . That I have begun late ...
... whole of the present volumes , and which well deserves a peculiar treatise , ) but merely to consider the different fictions in prose , which have been given to the world under the name of romance or novel . That I have begun late ...
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... whole work seems to have been written under the eye of the sultan who said he would cut off the head of the first man who made a reflection . But even the utility of the abstracts , which should have been the principal object of the ...
... whole work seems to have been written under the eye of the sultan who said he would cut off the head of the first man who made a reflection . But even the utility of the abstracts , which should have been the principal object of the ...
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... whole year ; and the length of the day was proportioned to that of the night . At last , awakening one morning , he finds himself at Tyre , where he meets with his old friends Mantinia and Dercyllis , with whom he passes the remainder ...
... whole year ; and the length of the day was proportioned to that of the night . At last , awakening one morning , he finds himself at Tyre , where he meets with his old friends Mantinia and Dercyllis , with whom he passes the remainder ...
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... whole work . He seems , according to that author , to have entertained a complete contempt for the advice of Horace , with regard to hurrying his readers into the middle of the action - in medias res rapere ; he never departs from the ...
... whole work . He seems , according to that author , to have entertained a complete contempt for the advice of Horace , with regard to hurrying his readers into the middle of the action - in medias res rapere ; he never departs from the ...
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... whole work was turned into English prose by Thomas Underdown , and printed 1577 : part of it was also versified in English hexameters , by Abraham Fraunce , and published in this form , 1591 , 8vo . There have been at least four French ...
... whole work was turned into English prose by Thomas Underdown , and printed 1577 : part of it was also versified in English hexameters , by Abraham Fraunce , and published in this form , 1591 , 8vo . There have been at least four French ...
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