I have ended 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... Amadis of Gaul - Page xiv1872Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 354 pages
...this triumph which proves that, as the best and fairest of women, she alone is worthy to be the wire of the best and bravest of men, must be the work of...hereafter continue these volumes upon the plan of the Bibliothfqne des Romans, every thing necessary to render the after stones intelligible may be found... | |
| 1803 - 340 pages
...author, unless he left the story incompleat. But there KIT is no reason to suspect that the work of Yascd Lobeira was not compleated. That, as well as the rudeness...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... | |
| 1803 - 412 pages
...the fifth book, or what Montalvo, in something like a Quack's Greek, calls the Sergas of Esplanilian. It is one Romance growing out of another as clumsily...volumes upon the plan of the Bibliotheque des Romans, every tiling necessary to render the after stories intelligible may be found in this, though this is... | |
| Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - 1812 - 688 pages
...by enchantment, and very strangely." Of these additions Mr. Southey gives the following Account. " The chapters which follow in the Spanish are evidently...has been here retained, that if any person should hereafier continue these volumes upon the plan of the Bikliotheijue des Romans, every thing necessary... | |
| 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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