History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 - Fiction |
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... writers of the French Fabliaux , and a still greater number have been transferred into the GESTA ROMANORUM , which is believed to be a principal storehouse of the Italian - novelists . This composition , in the disguise of romantic ...
... writers of the French Fabliaux , and a still greater number have been transferred into the GESTA ROMANORUM , which is believed to be a principal storehouse of the Italian - novelists . This composition , in the disguise of romantic ...
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... writers as well as collections o extracts received the name of Historia or Gesta , Romana or Romanorum and that the medieval compilation is merely such a collection moralized its essential feature is the moralization , and it is ...
... writers as well as collections o extracts received the name of Historia or Gesta , Romana or Romanorum and that the medieval compilation is merely such a collection moralized its essential feature is the moralization , and it is ...
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... writers , in the 32nd tale of the Queen of Navarre , in Gower's " Confessio Amantis , " and in the German ballad of Count Stolberg . Such atrocious fictions , however , were not peculiar to the Ma foi ( says the queen of Navarre ) si ...
... writers , in the 32nd tale of the Queen of Navarre , in Gower's " Confessio Amantis , " and in the German ballad of Count Stolberg . Such atrocious fictions , however , were not peculiar to the Ma foi ( says the queen of Navarre ) si ...
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... writer by whom this story was recorded he relates a similar tale of Pope Gerbert , or Sylvester the Second , who died in the year 1003 , and was the earliest European student of Arabic learning . : In their obvious meaning , it is ...
... writer by whom this story was recorded he relates a similar tale of Pope Gerbert , or Sylvester the Second , who died in the year 1003 , and was the earliest European student of Arabic learning . : In their obvious meaning , it is ...
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... Fraine , the author of which must have been better in- 1 Metrical Rom . i . p . 121 , etc. 2 Introductory Discourse to Canterbury Tales , n . 24 . formed than any modern writer , it is said that 28 [ CH . VII . HISTORY OF FICTION .
... Fraine , the author of which must have been better in- 1 Metrical Rom . i . p . 121 , etc. 2 Introductory Discourse to Canterbury Tales , n . 24 . formed than any modern writer , it is said that 28 [ CH . VII . HISTORY OF FICTION .
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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.