History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... beautiful in the Decameron [ ix . 9 ] , and also that of the magician who raises up a blooming garden in the depth of winter , are of this description . Now a great proportion of the stories in the Gesta Romanorum are of this nature ...
... beautiful in the Decameron [ ix . 9 ] , and also that of the magician who raises up a blooming garden in the depth of winter , are of this description . Now a great proportion of the stories in the Gesta Romanorum are of this nature ...
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... beautiful women working at the loom : but all was silence . He then went into a stable full of the most excel- lent horses , richly caparisoned : but those he touched were instantly turned into stone . Next he surveyed all the ...
... beautiful women working at the loom : but all was silence . He then went into a stable full of the most excel- lent horses , richly caparisoned : but those he touched were instantly turned into stone . Next he surveyed all the ...
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... beautiful young woman , the daughter of a poor but respectable burgess of Douai . He sought her in marriage ; and as he was the richest person in the district , the poor girl was delivered up to him . After learning of what she had ...
... beautiful young woman , the daughter of a poor but respectable burgess of Douai . He sought her in marriage ; and as he was the richest person in the district , the poor girl was delivered up to him . After learning of what she had ...
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... beautiful and appropriate manner in which he has intro- duced his stories , which are so much in unison with the gaiety of the scenes by which the narrators are surrounded . In the beginning of the first day he informs us , that , in ...
... beautiful and appropriate manner in which he has intro- duced his stories , which are so much in unison with the gaiety of the scenes by which the narrators are surrounded . In the beginning of the first day he informs us , that , in ...
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... beautiful woman , who was the wife of a clothier in Florence , fell in love with a gentleman of the same city . In order to acquaint him with her passion , she sent for a friar who frequented his house , and , under pretence of con ...
... beautiful woman , who was the wife of a clothier in Florence , fell in love with a gentleman of the same city . In order to acquaint him with her passion , she sent for a friar who frequented his house , and , under pretence of con ...
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Page 292 - As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den,* and laid me down in that place to sleep ; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back, Isa.