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Excerpt from Gesta Romanorum, or Entertaining Moral Stories, Vol. 1 of 2: Invented by the Monks as a Fireside Recreation; And Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit; Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, From the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots
Nature brightens the fancy. Equally with the ?owers - borrowed it from the colder concep tions of the Northern bards. Many parts of the Old Testament, demonstrate. Familiarity with spells; and Solomon (which proves a traditional intercourse, at least, between the Jews and other people of the East) by univer sal consent, has been enthroned sovereign of the Genii, and lord of the powerful Talisman. In David and Goliah, we trace the contests of knights with giants in the adventures of Sampson, perhaps, the miraculous feats attri buted to the heroes of chivalry. -in the apo cryphal book Of Tobit, we have an angel in the room of 9. Saint enchantments, anti dotes, distressed damsels, demons, and most of the other machinery of the occidental ro mance Parts Of the Pentateuch; of Kings.
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