The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age |
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... England after Scalds for the extravagant stories of giants the Norman Conquest . and monsters , these fables must still be re- A second hypothesis , which was first sug - ferred to an eastern origin , and must have gested by Salmasius ...
... England after Scalds for the extravagant stories of giants the Norman Conquest . and monsters , these fables must still be re- A second hypothesis , which was first sug - ferred to an eastern origin , and must have gested by Salmasius ...
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... England ; but it cannot be believed that tribe of griffons , which guarded mines of gold . the machinery of romance was created in a The expedition of Jason in search of the country , which , on the most favourable sup - 1 golden fleece ...
... England ; but it cannot be believed that tribe of griffons , which guarded mines of gold . the machinery of romance was created in a The expedition of Jason in search of the country , which , on the most favourable sup - 1 golden fleece ...
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... England , the archdeacon presented this medley of historical songs and traditions to Geoffrey of Monmouth , who founded on them a chronicle of Britain , which was written in Latin prose , and is supposed to have been finished about 1140 ...
... England , the archdeacon presented this medley of historical songs and traditions to Geoffrey of Monmouth , who founded on them a chronicle of Britain , which was written in Latin prose , and is supposed to have been finished about 1140 ...
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... England , first appeared in the French language . Before this time the language in which they wrote had passed into England by means of the Norman Conquest . The English , indeed , previous to this event had been prepared for the ...
... England , first appeared in the French language . Before this time the language in which they wrote had passed into England by means of the Norman Conquest . The English , indeed , previous to this event had been prepared for the ...
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... England . ' twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth cen- These they found in a more perfect state tury , an infinite variety of French metrical among the Welsh of this island . The inva- romances on the subject of Arthur and his sion of ...
... England . ' twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth cen- These they found in a more perfect state tury , an infinite variety of French metrical among the Welsh of this island . The inva- romances on the subject of Arthur and his sion of ...
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