History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... nature that can be mentioned , is the tales or fables attributed to Bidpai , or Pilpay , a com- position otherwise known by the name of KALILAH VE DIMNAH . This production , which , in its original form , is supposed to be upwards of ...
... nature that can be mentioned , is the tales or fables attributed to Bidpai , or Pilpay , a com- position otherwise known by the name of KALILAH VE DIMNAH . This production , which , in its original form , is supposed to be upwards of ...
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... nature with the stories in the continental Gesta , an inoculation of feudal manners and eastern imagery , on the exploits of classical heroes : but the re- mainder are somewhat different . The stories in the Angli- can Gesta were well ...
... nature with the stories in the continental Gesta , an inoculation of feudal manners and eastern imagery , on the exploits of classical heroes : but the re- mainder are somewhat different . The stories in the Angli- can Gesta were well ...
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... nature also . Thus chapter 102 contains the story of a knight who went to Palestine , and whose lady , meanwhile ... natural enough , and its origin need not be sought further than the wishes suggestive of the conception , which is of ...
... nature also . Thus chapter 102 contains the story of a knight who went to Palestine , and whose lady , meanwhile ... natural enough , and its origin need not be sought further than the wishes suggestive of the conception , which is of ...
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... nature must therefore chiefly be sought in the CONTES ET FABLIAUX.2 France , in a literary point of view , may be considered as divided into two parts during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . Soon after Gaul had been subdued by the ...
... nature must therefore chiefly be sought in the CONTES ET FABLIAUX.2 France , in a literary point of view , may be considered as divided into two parts during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . Soon after Gaul had been subdued by the ...
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... nature of love . It was in the Tensons , or pleas before the celebrated tribunals in which amatory questions were agitated , that they chiefly attempted to signalize them- selves . These tensons were dialogues in alternate couplets , in ...
... nature of love . It was in the Tensons , or pleas before the celebrated tribunals in which amatory questions were agitated , that they chiefly attempted to signalize them- selves . These tensons were dialogues in alternate couplets , 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.