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Page 157
... fiction which are more aptly described as love pamphlets than as novels . By far the most attractive feature in Greene's prose romances is the appearance in them of a number of his charming lyrics : e.g. in Menaphon the deservedly ...
... fiction which are more aptly described as love pamphlets than as novels . By far the most attractive feature in Greene's prose romances is the appearance in them of a number of his charming lyrics : e.g. in Menaphon the deservedly ...
Page 312
... fiction took on a semblance of drab and homespun fact . His massed works include a History of the Union of England and Scotland ( 1709 ) , a History of the Wars of Charles XII of Sweden ( 1715 ) , possibly a General History of the ...
... fiction took on a semblance of drab and homespun fact . His massed works include a History of the Union of England and Scotland ( 1709 ) , a History of the Wars of Charles XII of Sweden ( 1715 ) , possibly a General History of the ...
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... fiction ; fiction was powerless to engage his interest unless it could pass for fact . Yet the stuff of fact and the attractions of fact are limited . Fact may itself lie by default if it permits only fragments of a story to appear ...
... fiction ; fiction was powerless to engage his interest unless it could pass for fact . Yet the stuff of fact and the attractions of fact are limited . Fact may itself lie by default if it permits only fragments of a story to appear ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE 3333 | 43 |
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