History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1888 - Fiction |
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Page 163
... portrait . It is this woman who , in the Greater Graal , denounces the abettors of the crucifixion , and it is Joseph's wife ( Helyab ) who begs for her husband's deliverance , while Caiaphas discloses the dungeon where Joseph is ...
... portrait . It is this woman who , in the Greater Graal , denounces the abettors of the crucifixion , and it is Joseph's wife ( Helyab ) who begs for her husband's deliverance , while Caiaphas discloses the dungeon where Joseph is ...
Page 368
... portrait by a favourite dwarf . Like the princess in the Persian Tales , Niquea was of such resplendent beauty , that all who beheld her died , or at least were deprived of reason . She was in consequence shut up by her father in an ...
... portrait by a favourite dwarf . Like the princess in the Persian Tales , Niquea was of such resplendent beauty , that all who beheld her died , or at least were deprived of reason . She was in consequence shut up by her father in an ...
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John Colin Dunlop. impassable flames . The view of the portrait of this beauty overcame the fidelity which Amadis had hitherto preserved to the princess of Sicily . In order to obtain access to his new mistress , Amadis , soon after the ...
John Colin Dunlop. impassable flames . The view of the portrait of this beauty overcame the fidelity which Amadis had hitherto preserved to the princess of Sicily . In order to obtain access to his new mistress , Amadis , soon after the ...
Page 391
... portrait of Miraguarda ; but as she still retained a strong resent- ment at the conduct of her former lover , she employed a magician to avenge her on the queen of Thrace , who had been lately united to Florian . This queen , while ...
... portrait of Miraguarda ; but as she still retained a strong resent- ment at the conduct of her former lover , she employed a magician to avenge her on the queen of Thrace , who had been lately united to Florian . This queen , while ...
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... portraits of the knights , however , are better brought out and discriminated . As in many other Spanish romances , Palmerin represents a faithful lover , and Florian a man of gallantry , though more than usually licentious . But the ...
... portraits of the knights , however , are better brought out and discriminated . As in many other Spanish romances , Palmerin represents a faithful lover , and Florian a man of gallantry , though more than usually licentious . But the ...
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