History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... containing a piece of silk , woven with certain characters , which , however , had the inconvenience of being ... contain fourteen pieces of instruction for monarchs . Each of these is declared to have reference to a surprising history ...
... containing a piece of silk , woven with certain characters , which , however , had the inconvenience of being ... contain fourteen pieces of instruction for monarchs . Each of these is declared to have reference to a surprising history ...
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John Colin Dunlop. tionibus eorundem . " A subsequent edition , containing a hundred and eighty - one chapters , was ... contain a double or secondary meaning . At length the history of former periods , and the fictions of the classics ...
John Colin Dunlop. tionibus eorundem . " A subsequent edition , containing a hundred and eighty - one chapters , was ... contain a double or secondary meaning . At length the history of former periods , and the fictions of the classics ...
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... contains the story of a knight who went to Palestine , and whose lady , meanwhile , engaged in an intrigue with a clerk . Her infidelity was discovered to her absent husband by an eastern magician , by means of a polished mirror.3 ...
... contains the story of a knight who went to Palestine , and whose lady , meanwhile , engaged in an intrigue with a clerk . Her infidelity was discovered to her absent husband by an eastern magician , by means of a polished mirror.3 ...
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... contain violent satires against the clergy , absurd didactic poems , moral songs versified from the works of Boethius , and insipid pas- torals . But they were principally occupied with amo- rous compositions , and abstruse speculations ...
... contain violent satires against the clergy , absurd didactic poems , moral songs versified from the works of Boethius , and insipid pas- torals . But they were principally occupied with amo- rous compositions , and abstruse speculations ...
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... contain a sneer against the Christian religion , came from the Jews and Arabians who had settled in Spain . The ... containing the history of his nation from the destruction of the Temple to his own time , a conversation which passed ...
... contain a sneer against the Christian religion , came from the Jews and Arabians who had settled in Spain . The ... containing the history of his nation from the destruction of the Temple to his own time , a conversation which passed ...
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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.