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Page vi
... first books to all the continuation , he argues that they cannot have been written in the same country ; and from their good taste and high tone of sentiment he proves that they must be originally French . This is indeed French ...
... first books to all the continuation , he argues that they cannot have been written in the same country ; and from their good taste and high tone of sentiment he proves that they must be originally French . This is indeed French ...
Page vii
... first volume of the Agiologio was printed in 1652. With this single exception , the Portugueze have always ascribed the work to Vasco Lobeira ; and the authority of this tradition would alone outweigh all the possibilities of the French ...
... first volume of the Agiologio was printed in 1652. With this single exception , the Portugueze have always ascribed the work to Vasco Lobeira ; and the authority of this tradition would alone outweigh all the possibilities of the French ...
Page xi
... first pub- lished in the Collecção de Livros Incditos de His- toria Portugueza , 1792. He expressly says that Vasco Lobeira wrote the book of Amadis , and that the whole was his own invention . Could he have foreseen that it would have ...
... first pub- lished in the Collecção de Livros Incditos de His- toria Portugueza , 1792. He expressly says that Vasco Lobeira wrote the book of Amadis , and that the whole was his own invention . Could he have foreseen that it would have ...
Page xii
... first books ; in the fourth , he says , the Spanish taste begins to predominate ; but the ridiculous anachronisms which he particularizes , are all in- terpolated by D'Herberay . King Lisuarte's train of artillery , his powder , his ...
... first books ; in the fourth , he says , the Spanish taste begins to predominate ; but the ridiculous anachronisms which he particularizes , are all in- terpolated by D'Herberay . King Lisuarte's train of artillery , his powder , his ...
Page xv
... Portugal ; Amadis of Gaul , because it was the first of the kind , and the best . The censure of Cervantes was more efficient than his praise . Lobeira , like Ariosto , would have received no injury from his ridicule , if like PREFACE . XV.
... Portugal ; Amadis of Gaul , because it was the first of the kind , and the best . The censure of Cervantes was more efficient than his praise . Lobeira , like Ariosto , would have received no injury from his ridicule , if like PREFACE . XV.
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