History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... obtain the Hitopadesa . This emissary accomplished the object of the mission , by bribing an Indian sage with a promise of intoxication , to steal the literary treasure . The physician , on his return to Persia , translated it into the ...
... obtain the Hitopadesa . This emissary accomplished the object of the mission , by bribing an Indian sage with a promise of intoxication , to steal the literary treasure . The physician , on his return to Persia , translated it into the ...
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... obtained a last- ing reputation by the gratitude of the early Italian poets , and were believed great geniuses because celebrated by Dante and Petrarch , the metrical compositions of the Trouveurs were forgotten , as Boccaccio and his ...
... obtained a last- ing reputation by the gratitude of the early Italian poets , and were believed great geniuses because celebrated by Dante and Petrarch , the metrical compositions of the Trouveurs were forgotten , as Boccaccio and his ...
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... obtained the greatest celebrity , ' and , by their influence on the English drama , laid the foundation of the most splendid efforts of human genius . It may , therefore , be proper to give a few examples , that the reader may ...
... obtained the greatest celebrity , ' and , by their influence on the English drama , laid the foundation of the most splendid efforts of human genius . It may , therefore , be proper to give a few examples , that the reader may ...
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... obtain absolution , on account of the multi- tude and enormity of his crimes , his body should be refused church sepulture , and their house be , in consequence , as- saulted and plundered ; -compliments which it seems the mob were ...
... obtain absolution , on account of the multi- tude and enormity of his crimes , his body should be refused church sepulture , and their house be , in consequence , as- saulted and plundered ; -compliments which it seems the mob were ...
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... obtained good accommodation at night . The robbers said they had never repeated the paternoster , but that it would be seen which had the best lodging that evening . Having come to a retired place , they stripped their fellow traveller ...
... obtained good accommodation at night . The robbers said they had never repeated the paternoster , but that it would be seen which had the best lodging that evening . Having come to a retired place , they stripped their fellow traveller ...
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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.