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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... story have been founded on a has received considerable embellishments from tragedy of Sophocles , called the Captives , the disposition of the fable , and the artful ( Axudaro ) not now extant.1 A few of the manner in which the tale is ...
... story have been founded on a has received considerable embellishments from tragedy of Sophocles , called the Captives , the disposition of the fable , and the artful ( Axudaro ) not now extant.1 A few of the manner in which the tale is ...
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... story , may naturally describe their own arrangement of the incidents , the Ornaments feelings ; and an author is supposed to possess of a romance should be chiefly considered ; of the privilege of seeing into the hearts of his these ...
... story , may naturally describe their own arrangement of the incidents , the Ornaments feelings ; and an author is supposed to possess of a romance should be chiefly considered ; of the privilege of seeing into the hearts of his these ...
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... story , rative totally different . The author intro- though well fitted for narrative , is unsuitable duces himself as gazing at the picture of for tragedy , which indeed is acknowledged Europa , which was placed in the temple of by ...
... story , rative totally different . The author intro- though well fitted for narrative , is unsuitable duces himself as gazing at the picture of for tragedy , which indeed is acknowledged Europa , which was placed in the temple of by ...
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... story . Nor does he paint that chimerical duced in that late period ; the descriptions state of society , termed the ... story , has re- marked , I think unjustly , that it is a great defect in the plan of this pastoral , that it begins ...
... story . Nor does he paint that chimerical duced in that late period ; the descriptions state of society , termed the ... story , has re- marked , I think unjustly , that it is a great defect in the plan of this pastoral , that it begins ...
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... story of Daphnis and Chloe is pastoral . This opinion is combated by Villoi- related in the person of the author . He feigns , son , on the grounds that the first edition of that while hunting in Lesbos , he saw in a Longus was not ...
... story of Daphnis and Chloe is pastoral . This opinion is combated by Villoi- related in the person of the author . He feigns , son , on the grounds that the first edition of that while hunting in Lesbos , he saw in a Longus was not ...
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