History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... soon and intimately acquainted with the works of the latter description produced among the neighbouring nations . Nor does this knowledge appear merely from the poems of Pulci and Boiardo , but from the authors of a period still more ...
... soon and intimately acquainted with the works of the latter description produced among the neighbouring nations . Nor does this knowledge appear merely from the poems of Pulci and Boiardo , but from the authors of a period still more ...
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... soon after translated into Syriac , 2 and oftener than once into more modern Persic . In the eighth century there appeared an Arabic version , under the title , Kalilah ve Dimnah ( the dullard and the cunning one ) , the appellation by ...
... soon after translated into Syriac , 2 and oftener than once into more modern Persic . In the eighth century there appeared an Arabic version , under the title , Kalilah ve Dimnah ( the dullard and the cunning one ) , the appellation by ...
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... soon after that of Hebers , but differs from it essentially , both in the frame and in the stories introduced . This work gave rise to many subsequent imitations in French prose , and to the English metrical romance , entitled the ...
... soon after that of Hebers , but differs from it essentially , both in the frame and in the stories introduced . This work gave rise to many subsequent imitations in French prose , and to the English metrical romance , entitled the ...
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... soon suffered a miserable death . All this is , of course , moralized ; the palace is the world - the figure with the bow is mortality - and the carbuncle human life . William of Malmesbury1 is the first writer by whom this story was ...
... soon suffered a miserable death . All this is , of course , moralized ; the palace is the world - the figure with the bow is mortality - and the carbuncle human life . William of Malmesbury1 is the first writer by whom this story was ...
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... soon after their composition , and have but lately become a sub- ject of attention . While the Troubadours obtained a last- ing reputation by the gratitude of the early Italian poets , and were believed great geniuses because celebrated ...
... soon after their composition , and have but lately become a sub- ject of attention . While the Troubadours obtained a last- ing reputation by the gratitude of the early Italian poets , and were believed great geniuses because celebrated ...
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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.