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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... entered on those of fiction are divided into classes , and a sum- composed by the western nations , which have mary of one romance from each order is now the name of Romances almost appropri- exhibited in turn . This compilation was pub ...
... entered on those of fiction are divided into classes , and a sum- composed by the western nations , which have mary of one romance from each order is now the name of Romances almost appropri- exhibited in turn . This compilation was pub ...
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... entering into his emotions ; but the interest of the romance would have been greater , had the birth of Chariclea been concealed till the conclusion . This could have been done with slight altera- tions , and would have formed , if I ...
... entering into his emotions ; but the interest of the romance would have been greater , had the birth of Chariclea been concealed till the conclusion . This could have been done with slight altera- tions , and would have formed , if I ...
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... entered by those who resembled of her lover , is happily imagined , were not its goddess . Never were notes heard so me- the solution of the enigma so wretched . As lodious as those by which Leucippe was vindi- the work advances ...
... entered by those who resembled of her lover , is happily imagined , were not its goddess . Never were notes heard so me- the solution of the enigma so wretched . As lodious as those by which Leucippe was vindi- the work advances ...
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... entered on their new seem to have been considered as precluding employments , which they exercise with a all attempts of the same kind ; for , if we except care of their flocks , increased by a know- the feeble efforts of Calpurnius ...
... entered on their new seem to have been considered as precluding employments , which they exercise with a all attempts of the same kind ; for , if we except care of their flocks , increased by a know- the feeble efforts of Calpurnius ...
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... entered dark and gloomy caverns , through which whirlwinds blew with unceasing vio- lence , and the worm and serpent rioted on the souls of sinners in a furnace blown to fury by the breath of demons . Josaphat awakens greatly exhausted ...
... entered dark and gloomy caverns , through which whirlwinds blew with unceasing vio- lence , and the worm and serpent rioted on the souls of sinners in a furnace blown to fury by the breath of demons . Josaphat awakens greatly exhausted ...
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