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... and with the state of society . Since Fiction may be regarded as select and highly coloured history , those adventures would 1 De Aug. Scient . lib . ii . p . 1 . naturally form the basis of it which had already come 2 INTRODUCTION .
... and with the state of society . Since Fiction may be regarded as select and highly coloured history , those adventures would 1 De Aug. Scient . lib . ii . p . 1 . naturally form the basis of it which had already come 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... adventures , forms the favourite amusement ; and we thus find that listening to the recital of tales has at all times been the peculiar enter- tainment of the indolent and voluptuous nations of the East . A taste , accordingly , for ...
... adventures , forms the favourite amusement ; and we thus find that listening to the recital of tales has at all times been the peculiar enter- tainment of the indolent and voluptuous nations of the East . A taste , accordingly , for ...
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... adventures , as appears from the dedication of Parthenius . They thus afford , remarks Rohde ( Griech , Rom . p . 114 ) , the most explicit testimony to the close connection between the Roman artificial poetry of the early Empire with ...
... adventures , as appears from the dedication of Parthenius . They thus afford , remarks Rohde ( Griech , Rom . p . 114 ) , the most explicit testimony to the close connection between the Roman artificial poetry of the early Empire with ...
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... adventures , seems to have been the first author who gained any celebrity by this species of composition . Of the romances , however , which were written previous to the appearance of the Theagenes and Chariclea of Heliodorus , I am ...
... adventures , seems to have been the first author who gained any celebrity by this species of composition . Of the romances , however , which were written previous to the appearance of the Theagenes and Chariclea of Heliodorus , I am ...
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... adventures ; yet , to judge from that author's abridg- ment , it seems to have contained a series of the most improbable incidents . But though filled with the most trifling and incredible narrations , it is deserving of atten- tion ...
... adventures ; yet , to judge from that author's abridg- ment , it seems to have contained a series of the most improbable incidents . But though filled with the most trifling and incredible narrations , it is deserving of atten- tion ...
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