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... Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Day . " Edinburgh , 1814. 3 vols . 8vo . A second edition was issued in 1816 , and I have seen references to a Philadelphia reprint in two volumes , 1842 , from the second edition , and to a ...
... Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Day . " Edinburgh , 1814. 3 vols . 8vo . A second edition was issued in 1816 , and I have seen references to a Philadelphia reprint in two volumes , 1842 , from the second edition , and to a ...
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... Greek romance -Heliodorus - Achilles Tatius - Longus - Chariton - Joannes Damascenus Eustathius - Remarks on this species of composi- tion CHAPTER II . PAGE 1 Introduction of the Milesian tales into Italy - Latin Romances- Petronius ...
... Greek romance -Heliodorus - Achilles Tatius - Longus - Chariton - Joannes Damascenus Eustathius - Remarks on this species of composi- tion CHAPTER II . PAGE 1 Introduction of the Milesian tales into Italy - Latin Romances- Petronius ...
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... Greek romances , though very succinct , is sufficiently clear , and stored with sound criti- cism . But having brought down the account of fiction to the later Greeks , and just entered on those composed by the western nations , which ...
... Greek romances , though very succinct , is sufficiently clear , and stored with sound criti- cism . But having brought down the account of fiction to the later Greeks , and just entered on those composed by the western nations , which ...
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... Greek ro- mances , or is presented alternately with a French heroic romance , or modern novel . Hence the reader is not furnished with a view of the progress of Fiction in con- tinuity ; he cannot trace the imitations of successive ...
... Greek ro- mances , or is presented alternately with a French heroic romance , or modern novel . Hence the reader is not furnished with a view of the progress of Fiction in con- tinuity ; he cannot trace the imitations of successive ...
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... GREEK ROMANCE . - HELIODORUS . - ACHILLES TATIUS . - EUS- -LONGUS . - CHARITON . - JOANNES DAMASCENUS.- TATHIUS . - REMARKS ON THIS SPECIES OF COMPOSITION . THE HE nature and utility of fiction having been pointed out , and the design ...
... GREEK ROMANCE . - HELIODORUS . - ACHILLES TATIUS . - EUS- -LONGUS . - CHARITON . - JOANNES DAMASCENUS.- TATHIUS . - REMARKS ON THIS SPECIES OF COMPOSITION . THE HE nature and utility of fiction having been pointed out , and the design ...
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