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 AgeLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 - 443 sider |
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... 7 CHAPTER I. Origin of Fictitious Narrative - Earliest Writers of Greek Romance - Heliodorus - Achilles Tatius - Longus ... Seven Wise Masters - Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle Antiche - Decameron of Boccaccio , 186 ...
... 7 CHAPTER I. Origin of Fictitious Narrative - Earliest Writers of Greek Romance - Heliodorus - Achilles Tatius - Longus ... Seven Wise Masters - Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle Antiche - Decameron of Boccaccio , 186 ...
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... Seven Wise Mas- had its origin . At his entrance into one of ters , which is one of the oldest collections of the ... master , Apuleius pre- perfect resemblance to that of the malefactor sented letters of recommendation from De- which ...
... Seven Wise Mas- had its origin . At his entrance into one of ters , which is one of the oldest collections of the ... master , Apuleius pre- perfect resemblance to that of the malefactor sented letters of recommendation from De- which ...
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... Seven Wise Masters . Herowdes , emperor of Rome , had seven sages in his council , who abused the confidence reposed in them by their master . This emperor , while one day preparing to go on a hunting party , is suddenly struck blind ; -the ...
... Seven Wise Masters . Herowdes , emperor of Rome , had seven sages in his council , who abused the confidence reposed in them by their master . This emperor , while one day preparing to go on a hunting party , is suddenly struck blind ; -the ...
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... Seven Wise Masters . the hole , where he was immediately shut up by Virgilius placing the board at the aperture , and will in all probability remain imprisoned , since he has irrecoverably lost the literary treasure by which he might ...
... Seven Wise Masters . the hole , where he was immediately shut up by Virgilius placing the board at the aperture , and will in all probability remain imprisoned , since he has irrecoverably lost the literary treasure by which he might ...
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... Seven Wise Masters - Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle Antiche - Decameron of Boccaccio . It seems not a little remarkable that Italy , | national manners and circumstances . Since which produced the earliest and ...
... Seven Wise Masters - Gesta Romanorum - Contes et Fabliaux - Cento Novelle Antiche - Decameron of Boccaccio . It seems not a little remarkable that Italy , | national manners and circumstances . Since which produced the earliest and ...
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