German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm. LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , LIMITED , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . Request 1-7-30 PREFACE . NEARLY fifteen years ago the English.
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm. LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , LIMITED , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . Request 1-7-30 PREFACE . NEARLY fifteen years ago the English.
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... English public had its first regular introduction to the curious and amusing po- pular Tales circulating among the Germans , as collected , and so admirably edited , by the learned and excellent MM . Grimm , brethren not only in kindred ...
... English public had its first regular introduction to the curious and amusing po- pular Tales circulating among the Germans , as collected , and so admirably edited , by the learned and excellent MM . Grimm , brethren not only in kindred ...
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... English readers , inasmuch as many of their national tales are proved to be of the highest northern antiquity , and common to the parallel classes of society in countries whose populations have been long and widely disjoined Strange to ...
... English readers , inasmuch as many of their national tales are proved to be of the highest northern antiquity , and common to the parallel classes of society in countries whose populations have been long and widely disjoined Strange to ...
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... English reader ; and have therefore often deprived themselves of the interest which comparison would afford . There were also many stories of great merit , and tending highly to the elucidation of ancient mythology , customs , and ...
... English reader ; and have therefore often deprived themselves of the interest which comparison would afford . There were also many stories of great merit , and tending highly to the elucidation of ancient mythology , customs , and ...
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... English elements of our language . From these they have very rarely , and only under the pressure of almost absolute necessity , departed . Our GAMMER GRETHEL , the supposed narrator of the stories , in fact lived , though under a ...
... English elements of our language . From these they have very rarely , and only under the pressure of almost absolute necessity , departed . Our GAMMER GRETHEL , the supposed narrator of the stories , in fact lived , though under a ...
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