Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 246
... few years subsequent to the legend of the supposed Turpin , and about nine anterior to the second Crusade , GEOFFERY OF MONMOUTH , 2 Welsh benedictine monk , translated from the Ar- moric language 246 ON THE FABLE , IMAGERY ,
... few years subsequent to the legend of the supposed Turpin , and about nine anterior to the second Crusade , GEOFFERY OF MONMOUTH , 2 Welsh benedictine monk , translated from the Ar- moric language 246 ON THE FABLE , IMAGERY ,
Page 247
... Geoffery , executed about the year 1138 , is filled with imagery and incidents which could only have been derived from a communication with the East . In fact , the interpolations , the additions and forgeries of Geoffery , are in this ...
... Geoffery , executed about the year 1138 , is filled with imagery and incidents which could only have been derived from a communication with the East . In fact , the interpolations , the additions and forgeries of Geoffery , are in this ...
Page 248
... Geoffery ) has men tioned giants , inchanters , dragons , and the like monstrous and arbitrary fictions . And the reason is obvious : they were written at a time when a new and unnatural mode of thinking took place in Europe ...
... Geoffery ) has men tioned giants , inchanters , dragons , and the like monstrous and arbitrary fictions . And the reason is obvious : they were written at a time when a new and unnatural mode of thinking took place in Europe ...
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... Geoffery of Monmouth and the romances , was the issue of a demon and a virgin . He was born in Britain , and was very serviceable to Arthur by his proficiency in ma- gic , which , however , was at last the cause of his own destruction ...
... Geoffery of Monmouth and the romances , was the issue of a demon and a virgin . He was born in Britain , and was very serviceable to Arthur by his proficiency in ma- gic , which , however , was at last the cause of his own destruction ...
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... Geoffery's volume . To honour the memory of the Britons treache- rously slain by Hengist , the British enchanter transported from the mountain of Kildare , in Ire- land , those immense masses of stone called Stone- henge or the Giant's ...
... Geoffery's volume . To honour the memory of the Britons treache- rously slain by Hengist , the British enchanter transported from the mountain of Kildare , in Ire- land , those immense masses of stone called Stone- henge or the Giant's ...
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