History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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Page 23
... death . All this is , of course , moralized ; the palace is the world - the figure with the bow is mortality - and the carbuncle human life . William of Malmesbury1 is the first writer by whom this story was recorded he relates a ...
... death . All this is , of course , moralized ; the palace is the world - the figure with the bow is mortality - and the carbuncle human life . William of Malmesbury1 is the first writer by whom this story was recorded he relates a ...
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... death . See Gower's " Confessio Amantis ( lib . 5 ) . 30. Story of the Sheep passing a River , from the 11th tale of Petrus Alphonsus . This stupid story has been in- troduced in Don Quixote , where it is related by Sancho to his master ...
... death . See Gower's " Confessio Amantis ( lib . 5 ) . 30. Story of the Sheep passing a River , from the 11th tale of Petrus Alphonsus . This stupid story has been in- troduced in Don Quixote , where it is related by Sancho to his master ...
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... death of the author , and though the office of an editor might be sufficiently perilous , he would not , even if discovered , have undergone the severity of punishment which would perhaps have been inflicted on the author . The Italian ...
... death of the author , and though the office of an editor might be sufficiently perilous , he would not , even if discovered , have undergone the severity of punishment which would perhaps have been inflicted on the author . The Italian ...
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... death only urges to the speediness of enjoyment : " Falle diem ; mediis mors venit atra jocis . " . Sannaz Ep . " The Athenians , " ( says Thucydides in his celebrated de- scription of the Pestilence , ) " seeing the strange mutability ...
... death only urges to the speediness of enjoyment : " Falle diem ; mediis mors venit atra jocis . " . Sannaz Ep . " The Athenians , " ( says Thucydides in his celebrated de- scription of the Pestilence , ) " seeing the strange mutability ...
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... death of his father this young man , as he had been left in charge to the king of France , repaired to the court at Paris , leaving Giletta much afflicted at his departure . Mean- while it was rumoured that the king had been seized with ...
... death of his father this young man , as he had been left in charge to the king of France , repaired to the court at Paris , leaving Giletta much afflicted at his departure . Mean- while it was rumoured that the king had been seized with ...
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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.