 ... here, and left the reader to infer that Amadis and Oriana, like the heroes of every nursery tale, lived very happy after. The chapters which follow in the Spanish are evidently added to introduce the fifth book, or what Montalvo, in something like...  Amadis of Gaul - Page xv1803Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 340 pages
...the fifth book, or what Montalvo, in something like a Quack's Greek, calls the Sergas of Esplandian. It is one Romance growing out of another as clumsily...hereafter continue these Volumes upon the plan of the Biblio* tlifque dcs Romans, every thing necessary to render the after stones intelligible may be kr... | |
 | Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - 1812 - 688 pages
...the fifth book, or what Montalvo, in something like a quack's Greek, calls the Sergas of Esplandian. It is one romance growing out of another as clumsily...has been here retained, that if any person should hereafier continue these volumes upon the plan of the Bikliotheijue des Romans, every thing necessary... | |
 | Vasco de Lobeira - 1872 - 350 pages
...the fifth book, or what Montalvo, in something like a Quack's Greek, calls the Sergas of Esplandian. It is one romance growing out of another as clumsily...volumes upon the plan of the Bibliotheque des Romans, everything necessary to render the after stories intelligible may be found in this, though this is... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 954 pages
...heroes of every nursery tale, lived very happy after." As to the remainder, he styles the additions " one romance growing out of another " as clumsily as a young oyster upon the back of its parent." Amadis of Gaul was one of the three Romances spared by the Curate from the condemnation to fire which... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 pages
...Introduction to Malory's Morte d1 Arthur. elsewhere he talks with disgust of stories in which we find " one romance growing out of another as clumsily as a young oyster upon the back of its parent."1 But if the construction of the Arthurian stories shocked his well-regulated mind, he was... | |
 | Free Library of Philadelphia - 1899 - 76 pages
...of every nursery tale, lived very happy after." As to the remainder, Southey styles the additions " one romance growing out of " another as clumsily as a young oyster upon the back of its parent." " Amadis of Gaul" was one of the three romances spared by the curate from the condemnation to fire... | |
 | John Thomson - 1899 - 84 pages
...of every nursery tale, lived very happy after." As to the remainder, Southey styles the additions " one romance growing out of " another as clumsily as a young oyster upon the back of its parent." " Amadis of Gaul" was one of the three romances spared by the curate from the condemnation to fire... | |
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