History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... lover , and delivers him thus bound to her spouse as a thief she had just seized . The husband proposes putting him to death , to which the lady objects , suggesting that it will be better to detain him till daybreak , and then deliver ...
... lover , and delivers him thus bound to her spouse as a thief she had just seized . The husband proposes putting him to death , to which the lady objects , suggesting that it will be better to detain him till daybreak , and then deliver ...
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... lover's escape by kissing her spouse on the other eye . Of this story , as we shall afterwards find , there is a close imitation in the 16th of the Cent Nouvelles Nou- velles , the sixth of the tales of the queen of Navarre , and the ...
... lover's escape by kissing her spouse on the other eye . Of this story , as we shall afterwards find , there is a close imitation in the 16th of the Cent Nouvelles Nou- velles , the sixth of the tales of the queen of Navarre , and the ...
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... lover's verses by the light of a waxen taper . In Spenser's " Fairy Queen " [ bk . iii . , cant . 3 ] , Merlin is feigned to have been the artificer of an enchanted mirror , in which a damsel viewed the shadow of her lover . * There is ...
... lover's verses by the light of a waxen taper . In Spenser's " Fairy Queen " [ bk . iii . , cant . 3 ] , Merlin is feigned to have been the artificer of an enchanted mirror , in which a damsel viewed the shadow of her lover . * There is ...
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... lover . The lady recognises her husband , but pretends to be deceived , and , after shutting him up , goes to find her lover ; and , moved with indignation at the prying disposition of her lord , grants the knight what she had hitherto ...
... lover . The lady recognises her husband , but pretends to be deceived , and , after shutting him up , goes to find her lover ; and , moved with indignation at the prying disposition of her lord , grants the knight what she had hitherto ...
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... Lover who had deceived them all , we have an exaggerated instance of that mixture of horror and gal- lantry which ... lover's heart served up at table , is one of not in- frequent recurrence . The following is the title of a pamphlet in ...
... Lover who had deceived them all , we have an exaggerated instance of that mixture of horror and gal- lantry which ... lover's heart served up at table , is one of not in- frequent recurrence . The following is the title of a pamphlet in ...
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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.