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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... husband narrative . might not think the cause proportioned to the effect , she commits the infant in charge to Sisimithres , an Ethiopian senator , and deposits in his hands a ring and some writ- In adopting these principles of ...
... husband narrative . might not think the cause proportioned to the effect , she commits the infant in charge to Sisimithres , an Ethiopian senator , and deposits in his hands a ring and some writ- In adopting these principles of ...
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... husband , is warned in a vision by that Sarah and Abram passed , and for similar Apollo that he should return to his own reasons , for brother and sister while in Egypt , country , and take Theagenes and Chariclea and that Isaac and ...
... husband , is warned in a vision by that Sarah and Abram passed , and for similar Apollo that he should return to his own reasons , for brother and sister while in Egypt , country , and take Theagenes and Chariclea and that Isaac and ...
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... husband of Arsace , who carried off his mistress . Thyamis , the captain was at that time carrying on a war against of the robbers , escapes by flight , and Cnemon , the Ethiopians : he had been informed of the a young Athenian , who ...
... husband of Arsace , who carried off his mistress . Thyamis , the captain was at that time carrying on a war against of the robbers , escapes by flight , and Cnemon , the Ethiopians : he had been informed of the a young Athenian , who ...
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... husband , who was supposed to be two persons had also escaped from the ship- drowned , arrived at Ephesus . Clitophon was wreck , and had afterwards fallen into the instantly confined by the enraged husband ; power of the robbers . By ...
... husband , who was supposed to be two persons had also escaped from the ship- drowned , arrived at Ephesus . Clitophon was wreck , and had afterwards fallen into the instantly confined by the enraged husband ; power of the robbers . By ...
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... husband , feels some scruples so propitious to the love and glory of Chae- at accepting a second ; but at length agrees to espouse Dionysius , with the view of giving a nominal father to the child of which she was pregnant . The ...
... husband , feels some scruples so propitious to the love and glory of Chae- at accepting a second ; but at length agrees to espouse Dionysius , with the view of giving a nominal father to the child of which she was pregnant . The ...
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