Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots, Volume 1Charles Swan C. and J. Rivington, 1824 - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern |
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... whole virulence of an age , not remarkable for its forbearance ; and it is absurd to sup- pose , that the intercourse so long maintained between the two continents ( both previous to these expeditions , and subsequent ) , should not ...
... whole virulence of an age , not remarkable for its forbearance ; and it is absurd to sup- pose , that the intercourse so long maintained between the two continents ( both previous to these expeditions , and subsequent ) , should not ...
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... whole , is just as obscure as before a " reconciliation " of opinions was projected . This conciliatory system will remind the reader of Boccacio's tale of The Three Rings , " the question of which is yet remaining . " Another ...
... whole , is just as obscure as before a " reconciliation " of opinions was projected . This conciliatory system will remind the reader of Boccacio's tale of The Three Rings , " the question of which is yet remaining . " Another ...
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... whole of what he has re- jected . 1 " The Edda was compiled , undoubtedly with many additions and interpolations , from fictions and traditions in the old Runic poems , by Soemund Sigfusson , surnamed the Learned , about the year 1057 ...
... whole of what he has re- jected . 1 " The Edda was compiled , undoubtedly with many additions and interpolations , from fictions and traditions in the old Runic poems , by Soemund Sigfusson , surnamed the Learned , about the year 1057 ...
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... whole of EUROPE ? I shall now proceed to account for the in- troduction of romantic fiction , by a channel which appears to me the most natural , and therefore , the most likely to be true . I would begin with that period in which the ...
... whole of EUROPE ? I shall now proceed to account for the in- troduction of romantic fiction , by a channel which appears to me the most natural , and therefore , the most likely to be true . I would begin with that period in which the ...
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... - piler was a German , than that , because some stories are found in the Roman annals , the whole book was the production of a Latin Oriental , legendary , and classical fables , heightened by writer . INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
... - piler was a German , than that , because some stories are found in the Roman annals , the whole book was the production of a Latin Oriental , legendary , and classical fables , heightened by writer . INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
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