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...translator's compassion has spared them some details, and " consolidated," as he rather quaintly says, " many of those single blows which have no reference to armorial anatomy." But, in defiance of the similarity of combat and adventure, the march of the story engages our attention...

...translator's compassion has spared them some details, and " consolidated," as he rather quaintly says, " many of those single blows which have no reference to armorial anatomy." But, in defiance of the similarity of combat and adventure, the march of the story engages our attention...

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...translator's compassion has spared them some details, and " consolidated " (as he rather quaintly says) " many of those single blows, which have no reference to armorial anatomy." But, in defiance of the similarity of combat and adventure, the march of the story engages our attention...

...by " abridging the words, not the story ; by curtailing the dialogue, avoiding all reca" pitulations of the past action, consolidating many of those single...over the occasional moralizings of " the author." Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658). — LUCASTA. The poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq. [With Portrait.] Now...