History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... remarked , have seldom much relation to the instructions of which Dabchelim re- quired an explanation . - Stories are heaped on stories , and sphered within each other : a dying father , for example , gives some admonitions to his sons ...
... remarked , have seldom much relation to the instructions of which Dabchelim re- quired an explanation . - Stories are heaped on stories , and sphered within each other : a dying father , for example , gives some admonitions to his sons ...
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... remarked , that the Gesta Romano- rum supplies few of those tales of criminal yet ingenious gallantry which appear in all the Italian novelists , and occupy more than a third part of the Decameron . Indeed , I have observed but two ...
... remarked , that the Gesta Romano- rum supplies few of those tales of criminal yet ingenious gallantry which appear in all the Italian novelists , and occupy more than a third part of the Decameron . Indeed , I have observed but two ...
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... remarked , that those stories are the best which claim an eastern origin , or are derived from the Gesta Romanorum and the Fabliaux . This , from the examples given , the reader will have diffi- 1 See F. W. V. Schmidt , Beitraege zur ...
... remarked , that those stories are the best which claim an eastern origin , or are derived from the Gesta Romanorum and the Fabliaux . This , from the examples given , the reader will have diffi- 1 See F. W. V. Schmidt , Beitraege zur ...
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... remarked , that the Decameron could only be privately circulated , that it was not published for a hundred years after the death of the author , and though the office of an editor might be sufficiently perilous , he would not , even if ...
... remarked , that the Decameron could only be privately circulated , that it was not published for a hundred years after the death of the author , and though the office of an editor might be sufficiently perilous , he would not , even if ...
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... remarked , that although , as in the case of Chaucer , it may not be difficult to assign one distinctive story to a strongly - marked character , yet it was scarcely in the power of human genius to have invented ten discriminative tales ...
... remarked , that although , as in the case of Chaucer , it may not be difficult to assign one distinctive story to a strongly - marked character , yet it was scarcely in the power of human genius to have invented ten discriminative tales ...
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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.