History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1888 - Fiction |
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Page 60
... palace , while the cause is under cognizance , is happily imagined . Ar- taxerxes , as was to be expected , having become enamoured of the object of dispute , defers giving any decision , in order to protract her stay in Babylon [ vi ...
... palace , while the cause is under cognizance , is happily imagined . Ar- taxerxes , as was to be expected , having become enamoured of the object of dispute , defers giving any decision , in order to protract her stay in Babylon [ vi ...
Page 67
... palace , in which he places his son , and where , by providing him with teachers and attendants of the most healthy and beautiful appearance , he is careful that no symptoms of death , or disease , or poverty , or any- thing that could ...
... palace , in which he places his son , and where , by providing him with teachers and attendants of the most healthy and beautiful appearance , he is careful that no symptoms of death , or disease , or poverty , or any- thing that could ...
Page 78
... palace , etc. " Baron . i . p . 243 , col . i .; Warton , Hist . Eng . Poetry , ed . Hazlitt , 1871 , vol . ii . p . 145 note . Works such as Λύβυστρος και Ροδάμνη , Βέλθανδρος και Χρυσάντζα seem to have been works composed after ...
... palace , etc. " Baron . i . p . 243 , col . i .; Warton , Hist . Eng . Poetry , ed . Hazlitt , 1871 , vol . ii . p . 145 note . Works such as Λύβυστρος και Ροδάμνη , Βέλθανδρος και Χρυσάντζα seem to have been works composed after ...
Page 83
... palace , propounded to her numerous suitors a riddle to be explained as the price of her hand . Apollonius , king of Tyre , having fallen in love with the princess by report , arrives at the capital of Antiochus , and solves the enigma ...
... palace , propounded to her numerous suitors a riddle to be explained as the price of her hand . Apollonius , king of Tyre , having fallen in love with the princess by report , arrives at the capital of Antiochus , and solves the enigma ...
Page 88
... palace of the cardinal . That he might remove suspicion from himself , and conduct the reader as it were to other ground , he wrote an amatory romance . There , as if inci- dentally , he inserted the precepts of his art , and , conceal ...
... palace of the cardinal . That he might remove suspicion from himself , and conduct the reader as it were to other ground , he wrote an amatory romance . There , as if inci- dentally , he inserted the precepts of his art , and , conceal ...
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