History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... perhaps be regarded as the re- motest origin of the materials they have employed . Of this romance the prototype is believed to have been the book of the Seven counsellors , or Parables of Sandabar . This Sandabar is said , by an ...
... perhaps be regarded as the re- motest origin of the materials they have employed . Of this romance the prototype is believed to have been the book of the Seven counsellors , or Parables of Sandabar . This Sandabar is said , by an ...
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... Perhaps neither the author of the Cento Novelle Antiche , nor the subsequent Italian novelists , derived stories directly from the Seven Wise Masters , or the tales of Alphonsus ; but these works suggested many things to the writers of ...
... Perhaps neither the author of the Cento Novelle Antiche , nor the subsequent Italian novelists , derived stories directly from the Seven Wise Masters , or the tales of Alphonsus ; but these works suggested many things to the writers of ...
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... perhaps unmerited celebrity by the impos- ing panegyrics of Dante and Petrarch . The profession of the Troubadours existed with reputation from the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century . Their compositions ...
... perhaps unmerited celebrity by the impos- ing panegyrics of Dante and Petrarch . The profession of the Troubadours existed with reputation from the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century . Their compositions ...
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... perhaps , as to the extent , but not ' More recently a collection has been edited by M. A. Montaiglon : Recueil général et Complet des Fabliaux . Paris , 1872 , etc. the species of their productions . Hence their delineations and II . D ...
... perhaps , as to the extent , but not ' More recently a collection has been edited by M. A. Montaiglon : Recueil général et Complet des Fabliaux . Paris , 1872 , etc. the species of their productions . Hence their delineations and II . D ...
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... perhaps , study the French authors . Tired with his mercantile employments , Boccaccio next applied himself to canon law , and , in the prosecution of this study , he had occasion to peruse many works , from which , as shall be ...
... perhaps , study the French authors . Tired with his mercantile employments , Boccaccio next applied himself to canon law , and , in the prosecution of this study , he had occasion to peruse many works , from which , as shall be ...
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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.