Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation 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, Volume 1Charles Swan C. and J. Rivington, 1824 - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern |
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... fables , composed in some re- spects of the materials worked up by the Scalds , but long anterior in date to their com- positions , so far as they are known . Dr. Percy contends , that " old writers of chivalry appear utterly ...
... fables , composed in some re- spects of the materials worked up by the Scalds , but long anterior in date to their com- positions , so far as they are known . Dr. Percy contends , that " old writers of chivalry appear utterly ...
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... fable , would , of course , be cor- rupted ; not only from the mode of conveying it , but from the dissimilarity of customs and ideas among those by whom it was received . All I contend for , is the original ground , upon which they ...
... fable , would , of course , be cor- rupted ; not only from the mode of conveying it , but from the dissimilarity of customs and ideas among those by whom it was received . All I contend for , is the original ground , upon which they ...
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... fable flou- rished in its native purity . Let us examine , however , how far his bold assertion may be maintained , respecting the poetical machi- nery adopted by the ancient Scalds . Let us revert to the EDDA ' , a monument " tout - à ...
... fable flou- rished in its native purity . Let us examine , however , how far his bold assertion may be maintained , respecting the poetical machi- nery adopted by the ancient Scalds . Let us revert to the EDDA ' , a monument " tout - à ...
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... fable . " Qui est le plus ancien ou le premier des Dieux ? " is first asked , and other interrogatories follow , of a similar character . Then for the GIANTS - in the Runic mytho- logy nothing is more common . Speaking of the formation ...
... fable . " Qui est le plus ancien ou le premier des Dieux ? " is first asked , and other interrogatories follow , of a similar character . Then for the GIANTS - in the Runic mytho- logy nothing is more common . Speaking of the formation ...
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... fable • " " gives a very curious account of the fairies : 66 Voici , " says M. Mallet , 66 une Théorie 2 Ibid . p . 36 . 1 Mythologie Celtique , p . 30 . complette de la Féerie ; " but they are perhaps VOL . I. b INTRODUCTION . xxix.
... fable • " " gives a very curious account of the fairies : 66 Voici , " says M. Mallet , 66 une Théorie 2 Ibid . p . 36 . 1 Mythologie Celtique , p . 30 . complette de la Féerie ; " but they are perhaps VOL . I. b INTRODUCTION . xxix.
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