History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1888 - Fiction |
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... celebrated prose works of Fiction , from the earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Day . " Edinburgh , 1814. 3 vols . 8vo . A second edition was issued in 1816 , and I have seen references to a Philadelphia reprint in two ...
... celebrated prose works of Fiction , from the earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Day . " Edinburgh , 1814. 3 vols . 8vo . A second edition was issued in 1816 , and I have seen references to a Philadelphia reprint in two ...
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... celebrated which have been succes- sively presented to the world . We have already seen that fiction has in all ages formed the delight of the rudest and the most polished nations . It was late , however , and after the decline of its ...
... celebrated which have been succes- sively presented to the world . We have already seen that fiction has in all ages formed the delight of the rudest and the most polished nations . It was late , however , and after the decline of its ...
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... celebrated , have all perished . There is little known of them , except that they were not of a very moral tendency , and were principally written by a person of the name of Aristides , whose tales were translated into Latin by Sisenna ...
... celebrated , have all perished . There is little known of them , except that they were not of a very moral tendency , and were principally written by a person of the name of Aristides , whose tales were translated into Latin by Sisenna ...
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... celebrated for its wine , which was scarcely of an intoxicating quality . " Hic innocentis pocula Lesbii Duces sub umbra ; nec Semeleius Cum Marte confundet Thyoneus Prælia . " Hor . Carm . i . 17 . For the qualities of Lesbian wine ...
... celebrated for its wine , which was scarcely of an intoxicating quality . " Hic innocentis pocula Lesbii Duces sub umbra ; nec Semeleius Cum Marte confundet Thyoneus Prælia . " Hor . Carm . i . 17 . For the qualities of Lesbian wine ...
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... celebrated in the Buddhist scriptures . The ( see Bigandet's " Life or Legend of Gaudama , the Buddha of the Burmese , " two vols . , 1880 , pub- lished in Trübner's Oriental Series ) coincidences between the Indian and This story ...
... celebrated in the Buddhist scriptures . The ( see Bigandet's " Life or Legend of Gaudama , the Buddha of the Burmese , " two vols . , 1880 , pub- lished in Trübner's Oriental Series ) coincidences between the Indian and This story ...
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