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... reader , needs no demonstration ; it is amply attested by the numerous quotations from and references to it in all works , even of the most recent date , upon the history of imaginative literature . The explorations in the field of the ...
... reader , needs no demonstration ; it is amply attested by the numerous quotations from and references to it in all works , even of the most recent date , upon the history of imaginative literature . The explorations in the field of the ...
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John Colin Dunlop. Brewer . Dictionary of Phrase and Fable . 12th edition . Reader's Handbook . 3rd edition , 1882 . Liebrecht , F. J. Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen oder Geschichte der Romane , Novellen , Märchen . . chen ...
John Colin Dunlop. Brewer . Dictionary of Phrase and Fable . 12th edition . Reader's Handbook . 3rd edition , 1882 . Liebrecht , F. J. Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen oder Geschichte der Romane , Novellen , Märchen . . chen ...
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... readers , " as Warburton has remarked , ( Notes to Love's Labour's Lost , ) " and instead of giving us an account of the Tales of Chivalry , one of the most curious and interesting parts of the subject of which he promised to treat , he ...
... readers , " as Warburton has remarked , ( Notes to Love's Labour's Lost , ) " and instead of giving us an account of the Tales of Chivalry , one of the most curious and interesting parts of the subject of which he promised to treat , he ...
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... reader is not furnished with a view of the progress of Fiction in con- tinuity ; he cannot trace the imitations of successive fablers , nor the way in which fiction has been modified by the manners of an age . There is besides little or ...
... reader is not furnished with a view of the progress of Fiction in con- tinuity ; he cannot trace the imitations of successive fablers , nor the way in which fiction has been modified by the manners of an age . There is besides little or ...
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... reader to form some idea of the nature and merit of the works themselves , and of the transmission of fable from one age and country to another . EDINBURGH , 10th Feb. , 1816 . HISTORY OF FICTION . CHAPTER I. WRITERS ORIGIN OF ...
... reader to form some idea of the nature and merit of the works themselves , and of the transmission of fable from one age and country to another . EDINBURGH , 10th Feb. , 1816 . HISTORY OF FICTION . CHAPTER I. WRITERS ORIGIN OF ...
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