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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... hero are as extravagant as those of a express my acknowledgments , for having half paladin or knight of the Round Table . In opened their eyes on the first edition of so the episode of the Peruvian Inca , there is a trifling a ...
... hero are as extravagant as those of a express my acknowledgments , for having half paladin or knight of the Round Table . In opened their eyes on the first edition of so the episode of the Peruvian Inca , there is a trifling a ...
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... hero and heroine partake , romance principally consists of the adven- and awaken , to their great surprise , from the tures of the fugitives , and their hair - breadth | trance into which it had thrown them , when escapes from these ...
... hero and heroine partake , romance principally consists of the adven- and awaken , to their great surprise , from the tures of the fugitives , and their hair - breadth | trance into which it had thrown them , when escapes from these ...
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... hero and heroine generally the dead body for that of his daughter , he evade the search of their pursuers by passing gives it interment , and erects over it a monu- as defuncts , or spirits , which produces a ment , with the inscription ...
... hero and heroine generally the dead body for that of his daughter , he evade the search of their pursuers by passing gives it interment , and erects over it a monu- as defuncts , or spirits , which produces a ment , with the inscription ...
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... Hero and Leander of endangered . This deception is practised in Museus , where the lovers meet in the fane of other parts of the romance , particularly when Venus at Sestos . Places of worship , however , Arsace becomes enamoured of ...
... Hero and Leander of endangered . This deception is practised in Museus , where the lovers meet in the fane of other parts of the romance , particularly when Venus at Sestos . Places of worship , however , Arsace becomes enamoured of ...
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... hero or heroine falling into the hands of robbers . This , it is true , gives rise to many romantic incidents , but also produces an unvaried and tiresome recurrence of similar misfortunes . In works of art , we wish for that diversity ...
... hero or heroine falling into the hands of robbers . This , it is true , gives rise to many romantic incidents , but also produces an unvaried and tiresome recurrence of similar misfortunes . In works of art , we wish for that diversity ...
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