Excerpt from Ten Tales The mate is a form of fiction in which the French have always delighted and in which they have always excelled, from the days of the fang/ears and the trouveres, past the peri ods of La Fontaine and Voltaire, down to the present. The male is a tale, something more than a sketch, it may be, and something less than a short story. In verse it is at times but a mere rhymed anecdote, or it may at tain almost to the direct swiftness of a bal lad. The Canterbury Tales are conies, most of them, if not all; ...
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Excerpt from Ten Tales The mate is a form of fiction in which the French have always delighted and in which they have always excelled, from the days of the fang/ears and the trouveres, past the peri ods of La Fontaine and Voltaire, down to the present. The male is a tale, something more than a sketch, it may be, and something less than a short story. In verse it is at times but a mere rhymed anecdote, or it may at tain almost to the direct swiftness of a bal lad. The Canterbury Tales are conies, most of them, if not all; and so are some of the Tales of a Wayside 17m. The free-and easy tales of Prior were written in imita tion of the French route en vers; and that, likewise, was the model of more than one of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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