 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...tradition; and the invasion of France by the Moors or Mahometans, affords the ground-work of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the romances of chivalry, and so elegantly adorued by the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 406 pages
...tradition ; and the invasion of France by the Moors or Mahometans, affords the ground-work of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the...and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender booty booty to the Saracens;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 406 pages
...tradition ; and the invasion of France by the Moors, or mahometans, affords the groundwork of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the romances of chivalry, and so elegantly adorned py the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1814 - 718 pages
...extraordinary fables, which hajft fceea " go vriMly disfigured in the romances of chivalry, and so tit* Saatly adorned by the Italian muse." ' in the investigation...arisen from the supporters of the respective systems, baring Wended those elements of romance which ought to be referred *« separate origins. They have... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...tradition; and the invasion of France by the Moors or Mahometans, affords the ground-work of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the romances of chivalry. A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles, from the rock of Gibraltar to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 442 pages
...Mahometans, affords the ground-work of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the romance of chivalry, and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender booty to the Saracens; their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 522 pages
...or Mahometans, affords the groundwork of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in tbe romances of chivalry, and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In tbe decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender booty to the Saracens ;... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1834 - 432 pages
...tradition ; and the invasion of France by the Moors or Mohammedans affords the groundwork of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the...and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art the deserted cities could afford but a slender booty to the Moslems ; their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 630 pages
...by tradition ; and the invasion of France by the Moors or Mahometans affords the groundwork of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the...chivalry, and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In die decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender booty to the Saracens ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...by tradition ; and the invasion of France by the Moors or Mahometans affords the groundwork of those fables which have been so wildly disfigured in the...and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender booty to the Saracens ; their... | |
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Mahometans affords the groundwork of those fables, which have been so wildly disfigured in the romances of chivalry, and so elegantly adorned by the Italian muse. In the decline of society and art, the deserted cities could supply a slender booty to the... 
