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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo

  

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Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo : Amadis de Gaule

'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impressions by an unemployed pensiveness" and accustomed his thoughts to such a habitude of roving, that he [had] scarce ever been their quiet master since.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle      Print: Unknown
  

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