History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1906 |
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... remarked , have seldom much relation to the instructions of which Dabchelim re- quired an explanation . - Stories are heaped on stories , and sphered within each other : a dying father , for example , gives some admonitions to his sons ...
... remarked , have seldom much relation to the instructions of which Dabchelim re- quired an explanation . - Stories are heaped on stories , and sphered within each other : a dying father , for example , gives some admonitions to his sons ...
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... remarked , that the Gesta Romano- rum supplies few of those tales of criminal yet ingenious gallantry which appear in all the Italian novelists , and occupy more than a third part of the Decameron . Indeed , I have observed but two ...
... remarked , that the Gesta Romano- rum supplies few of those tales of criminal yet ingenious gallantry which appear in all the Italian novelists , and occupy more than a third part of the Decameron . Indeed , I have observed but two ...
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... remarked , that those stories are the best which claim an eastern origin , or are derived from the Gesta Romanorum and the Fabliaux . This , from the examples given , the reader will have diffi- 1 See F. W. V. Schmidt , Beitraege zur ...
... remarked , that those stories are the best which claim an eastern origin , or are derived from the Gesta Romanorum and the Fabliaux . This , from the examples given , the reader will have diffi- 1 See F. W. V. Schmidt , Beitraege zur ...
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... remarked , that the Decameron could only be privately circulated , that it was not published for a hundred years after the death of the author , and though the office of an editor might be sufficiently perilous , he would not , even if ...
... remarked , that the Decameron could only be privately circulated , that it was not published for a hundred years after the death of the author , and though the office of an editor might be sufficiently perilous , he would not , even if ...
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... remarked , that although , as in the case of Chaucer , it may not be difficult to assign one distinctive story to a strongly - marked character , yet it was scarcely in the power of human genius to have invented ten discriminative tales ...
... remarked , that although , as in the case of Chaucer , it may not be difficult to assign one distinctive story to a strongly - marked character , yet it was scarcely in the power of human genius to have invented ten discriminative tales ...
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Page 288 - ... grown so' crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Page 286 - As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den,* and laid me down in that place to sleep ; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back, Isa.
Page 699 - English Translation on opposite pages, Notes, Introduction, and Glossary, by Rev. S. Fox, MA To which is added the Anglo-Saxon Version of the METRES OF BOETHIUS, with a free Translation by Martin F.
Page 703 - DANTE. The Inferno. A Literal Prose Translation, with the Text of the Original printed on the same page.
Page 289 - There were also that met them with harps and crowns, and gave them to them; the harps to praise withal, and the crowns in token of honour. Then I heard in my dream that all the bells in the City rang again for joy; and that it was said unto them, Enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 171 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.