 | Francis Grose, Samuel Pegge - 1839 - 262 pages
...embraces a singular chapter of literary history omitted by Warton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted : and we think we may add, that it...amusing book on the singular subject of Purgatory, to which the idle and fearful dreams of superstition are shown to be first narrated as tales, and then... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 68 pages
...embraces a singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it...that has yet been published." — Literary Gazette, Legends of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages, by THOMAS WRIGHT, MA, FSA,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1842 - 150 pages
...that it forms tlie best introduction to Dante thai has yet been published."— Literary Gazette. tr This appears to be a curious and even amusing book...Purgatory, in which the idle and fearful dreams of supeistition are shown to be first narrated as tales, and then applied as means of deducing the moral... | |
 | Mary Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland - 1843 - 424 pages
...embreéis i singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with whon we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it forms the best introduction to Daub that lias yi't been published."— Literary Gazette. " Thie appears to be a curious and even amusing... | |
 | John Russell Smith - 1846 - 396 pages
...embraces a singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton, and all former writers with whom we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it...that has yet been published." — Literary Gazette. " It is a curious fact, that all the old monkish legends relative to Purgatory are either English or... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1846 - 520 pages
...embraces a singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it...to Dante that has yet been published." — Literary Oazette. " This appears to be a curious and even amusing book on the singular subject of Purgatory,... | |
 | Edward Duke - 1846 - 256 pages
...embraces a singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it...introduction to Dante that has yet been published." FSA, &c., post 8vo. cloth, 6* Literary Gazette. " This appears to be a curious and even amusing book... | |
 | Edward Johnston Vernon - 1846 - 246 pages
...embraces a singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted; and we think we may add, that it forms...introduction to Dante that has yet been published." FSA, &c., post Svo. cloth, Gs Literary Gazette. John Rittsell Smith, 4, Old Campion Street, Soho. 11... | |
 | Edward Johnston Vernon - 1846 - 246 pages
...history, omitted by "lVarton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted ; and we think we may odd, that it forms the best introduction to Dante that has yet been published." Literary Gazette. John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho. 11 93 THE MERRY TALES of the Wise Men of Gotham, edited... | |
 | Edward Johnston Vernon - 1846 - 238 pages
...embraces singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with who we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it forms the best introduction to Dan that has yet been published."— Literary Gazette. " This appear' to be a cum us und even amusing... | |
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Purgatory, but a complete history of the legends and superstitions relating to the subject, from the earliest times, rescued from old MSS. as well as from old printed books. Moreover, it embraces a singular chapter of literary history omitted by Warton... 
