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... England . London , 1881 , 8vo . Croker , T. C. Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland . New ed . by T. Wright . London , 1882 , 8vo . Legendary Tales of the Ancient Britons rehearsed from the early Chronicles ( of Geoffrey of Monmouth ) ...
... England . London , 1881 , 8vo . Croker , T. C. Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland . New ed . by T. Wright . London , 1882 , 8vo . Legendary Tales of the Ancient Britons rehearsed from the early Chronicles ( of Geoffrey of Monmouth ) ...
Page xiv
... England . London , 1805. 3 vols . , 8vo . Wright , T. Essays on Subjects connected with the literature , popular superstitions , and history of England during the middle ages . The Bagford Ballads . Edited by J. W. Ebbsworth for the ...
... England . London , 1805. 3 vols . , 8vo . Wright , T. Essays on Subjects connected with the literature , popular superstitions , and history of England during the middle ages . The Bagford Ballads . Edited by J. W. Ebbsworth for the ...
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... England , the first instance ( apart from that lost play cited above ) would seem to be Cupid's Courtship ; or , the Celebration of a Marriage between the God of Love and Psiche , mentioned by Hazlitt . This was followed in 1637 by S ...
... England , the first instance ( apart from that lost play cited above ) would seem to be Cupid's Courtship ; or , the Celebration of a Marriage between the God of Love and Psiche , mentioned by Hazlitt . This was followed in 1637 by S ...
Page 117
... England after the Norman Conquest . A second hypothesis , which was first suggested by Sal- masius , ' and which has been followed out by Mr. T. Warton , 2 ascribes to the Saracens the foundation of romantic fiction . It had at one time ...
... England after the Norman Conquest . A second hypothesis , which was first suggested by Sal- masius , ' and which has been followed out by Mr. T. Warton , 2 ascribes to the Saracens the foundation of romantic fiction . It had at one time ...
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... England ; but it cannot be believed that the machinery of romance was created in a country , which , on the most favourable supposition , can only be regarded as a link in the chain of fiction ; and far less can it be thought that this ...
... England ; but it cannot be believed that the machinery of romance was created in a country , which , on the most favourable supposition , can only be regarded as a link in the chain of fiction ; and far less can it be thought that this ...
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