History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... imitated in many Italian tales . [ See infra , Ser Giovanni , ix . 1. ] The Widow who was comforted , is the Ephesian matron of Petronius Arbiter , and the Two dreams corresponds exactly with the plot of the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus ...
... imitated in many Italian tales . [ See infra , Ser Giovanni , ix . 1. ] The Widow who was comforted , is the Ephesian matron of Petronius Arbiter , and the Two dreams corresponds exactly with the plot of the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus ...
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... imitated by many subsequent writers , in the 32nd tale of the Queen of Navarre , in Gower's " Confessio Amantis , " and in the German ballad of Count Stolberg . Such atrocious fictions , however , were not peculiar to the Ma foi ( says ...
... imitated by many subsequent writers , in the 32nd tale of the Queen of Navarre , in Gower's " Confessio Amantis , " and in the German ballad of Count Stolberg . Such atrocious fictions , however , were not peculiar to the Ma foi ( says ...
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... imitated some of the most entertaining in modern French verse . At length M. Legrand , with inde- fatigable assiduity , published neither a free nor literal translation , but what he terms a copie reduite in French prose , of a large ...
... imitated some of the most entertaining in modern French verse . At length M. Legrand , with inde- fatigable assiduity , published neither a free nor literal translation , but what he terms a copie reduite in French prose , of a large ...
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... imitated in their own country . Some of them have been frequently modernised in French verse , and have formed subjects for the drama , as Molière's " Médecin Malgre Lui , " which is from the Fabliau Le Medicin de Brai , ou le Villain ...
... imitated in their own country . Some of them have been frequently modernised in French verse , and have formed subjects for the drama , as Molière's " Médecin Malgre Lui , " which is from the Fabliau Le Medicin de Brai , ou le Villain ...
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... imitated ; and it is singular , considering the time that elapsed before they passed the Alps , the pro- gress of literature in Italy during the interval , and the genius employed in imitation , that their faults should have been so ...
... imitated ; and it is singular , considering the time that elapsed before they passed the Alps , the pro- gress of literature in Italy during the interval , and the genius employed in imitation , that their faults should have been so ...
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Page 292 - 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.