History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... discovered to her absent husband by an eastern magician , by means of a polished mirror.3 Stories of this sort were common both in romance and tradition . It is said that during the Earl of Surrey's travels in Italy , Cornelius Agrippa ...
... discovered to her absent husband by an eastern magician , by means of a polished mirror.3 Stories of this sort were common both in romance and tradition . It is said that during the Earl of Surrey's travels in Italy , Cornelius Agrippa ...
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... discovered that the mare had died soon after producing the foal ; on which the prisoner receives from the king , as a reward , an additional allowance of bread . On another occasion he acquaints his majesty , that there is a worm in one ...
... discovered that the mare had died soon after producing the foal ; on which the prisoner receives from the king , as a reward , an additional allowance of bread . On another occasion he acquaints his majesty , that there is a worm in one ...
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... discovered his majesty's pedigree from the nature of the rewards he had repeatedly assigned him . This tale has a striking resemblance to that of the Three Sharpers and the Sultan , which is the second story of the recent addition to ...
... discovered his majesty's pedigree from the nature of the rewards he had repeatedly assigned him . This tale has a striking resemblance to that of the Three Sharpers and the Sultan , which is the second story of the recent addition to ...
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... discovered to be leprous . When overtaken and knocked down , he appears moreover to be afflicted with hernia , and is amerced in fivepence.2 51. Saladin's Installation to the Order of Knighthood : An abridgment of a Fabliau , called L ...
... discovered to be leprous . When overtaken and knocked down , he appears moreover to be afflicted with hernia , and is amerced in fivepence.2 51. Saladin's Installation to the Order of Knighthood : An abridgment of a Fabliau , called L ...
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... discovery of truth . Many of the commen- tators on Boccaccio have been anxious to prove , that his stories are for the most part borrowed from the earlier tales of his own country , and those of the French Trouveurs ; others have argued ...
... discovery of truth . Many of the commen- tators on Boccaccio have been anxious to prove , that his stories are for the most part borrowed from the earlier tales of his own country , and those of the French Trouveurs ; others have argued ...
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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.