History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... Romance - Legenda Aurea - Contes Dévots- Guerino Meschino - Lycidas et Cleorithe - Romans de Camus , etc. - Pilgrim's Progress CHAPTER X. Comic Romance - Works of Rabelais - Vita di Bertoldo - Don Quixote - Gusman D'Alfarache - Marcos ...
... Romance - Legenda Aurea - Contes Dévots- Guerino Meschino - Lycidas et Cleorithe - Romans de Camus , etc. - Pilgrim's Progress CHAPTER X. Comic Romance - Works of Rabelais - Vita di Bertoldo - Don Quixote - Gusman D'Alfarache - Marcos ...
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... Romance was used in those French provinces which lie to the south of the river Loire , and from the circum- stance of the inhabitants of that country using the word oc as their affirmative , it was called Langue d'oc . The sister ...
... Romance was used in those French provinces which lie to the south of the river Loire , and from the circum- stance of the inhabitants of that country using the word oc as their affirmative , it was called Langue d'oc . The sister ...
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... romance alone , that we must look for those ample materials which have enriched the works of the Italian novelists . This dialect , we have seen , superseded the Latin as a colloquial language in the beginning of the ninth century . Its ...
... romance alone , that we must look for those ample materials which have enriched the works of the Italian novelists . This dialect , we have seen , superseded the Latin as a colloquial language in the beginning of the ninth century . Its ...
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... Romance language previous to the middle of the twelfth century . I shall not here resume what has been formerly said on the origin of romances of chivalry , of which , it has already been shown , we must seek for the first rudiments in ...
... Romance language previous to the middle of the twelfth century . I shall not here resume what has been formerly said on the origin of romances of chivalry , of which , it has already been shown , we must seek for the first rudiments in ...
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... romance of the same name and subject was printed at Paris in 1526. Gerard de Nevers is a fic- titious personage . A bet similar to that in the text is made by Count Gerard , on the virtue of his wife Euryanthe , with Count Lisiard of ...
... romance of the same name and subject was printed at Paris in 1526. Gerard de Nevers is a fic- titious personage . A bet similar to that in the text is made by Count Gerard , on the virtue of his wife Euryanthe , with Count Lisiard of ...
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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.