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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... concerning the vintage . Lesbos had in all times been celebrated for its wine , which was scarcely of an intoxicating quality . Hic innocentis pocula Lesbi Duces sub umbra ; nec Semeleius The third book commences with the ap- proach of ...
... concerning the vintage . Lesbos had in all times been celebrated for its wine , which was scarcely of an intoxicating quality . Hic innocentis pocula Lesbi Duces sub umbra ; nec Semeleius The third book commences with the ap- proach of ...
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... concerning the tub , treated him with the utmost cruelty , and which forms the second story of the seventh spread such a report of his mischievous dis- day of the Decameron . Apuleius at length position , that he was at the point of ...
... concerning the tub , treated him with the utmost cruelty , and which forms the second story of the seventh spread such a report of his mischievous dis- day of the Decameron . Apuleius at length position , that he was at the point of ...
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... concerning the mysteries . The Golden Ass is also enriched with nu- merous episodes , which are the invention of Apuleius , or at least are not to be found in the work of Lucian . Of these , the best known , and by far the most ...
... concerning the mysteries . The Golden Ass is also enriched with nu- merous episodes , which are the invention of Apuleius , or at least are not to be found in the work of Lucian . Of these , the best known , and by far the most ...
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... concerning Arthur literature no little labour to explain . The species of machinery , such as giants , dragons , and enchanted castles , which forms the sea- soning of the adventures of chivalry , has been distinguished by the name of ...
... concerning Arthur literature no little labour to explain . The species of machinery , such as giants , dragons , and enchanted castles , which forms the sea- soning of the adventures of chivalry , has been distinguished by the name of ...
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... concerning the wars of Troy ; by a mind unacquainted with the constitution and the still more ample chronicle of Guido de of things . Thus to the deceptions of sight , Colonna , formed from these authors through produced by certain ...
... concerning the wars of Troy ; by a mind unacquainted with the constitution and the still more ample chronicle of Guido de of things . Thus to the deceptions of sight , Colonna , formed from these authors through produced by certain ...
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