German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... Notes ; but , in most cases , the alteration con- sists merely in the curtailment of adventures or details , not affecting the main plot or character of the story ; or amounts to little more than the license necessarily taken in ...
... Notes ; but , in most cases , the alteration con- sists merely in the curtailment of adventures or details , not affecting the main plot or character of the story ; or amounts to little more than the license necessarily taken in ...
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... note , judge , clerks , and gaoler , were set a - going ; all began capering , and no one could hold the Jew . At the second note the hangman let his prisoner go , and danced also ; and by the time he had played the first bar of the ...
... note , judge , clerks , and gaoler , were set a - going ; all began capering , and no one could hold the Jew . At the second note the hangman let his prisoner go , and danced also ; and by the time he had played the first bar of the ...
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... notes ; hut we wished to preserve the adventures substantially , as connected with our Donkey- Wort , " and as illustrating the antiquity and general diffusion of the leading incidents of both . The usual excrescence is a horn or horns ...
... notes ; hut we wished to preserve the adventures substantially , as connected with our Donkey- Wort , " and as illustrating the antiquity and general diffusion of the leading incidents of both . The usual excrescence is a horn or horns ...
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... , cocked his hat , took up his walking- 66 * " Das Tapfen Schneiderlein " of Grimm . Thumbling " and " Tom Thumb . " See the Notes on stick , and looked about his house , to see. SPITZ AND THE SPARROW . GIANT GOLDEN - BEARD . *. XLV XLVI.
... , cocked his hat , took up his walking- 66 * " Das Tapfen Schneiderlein " of Grimm . Thumbling " and " Tom Thumb . " See the Notes on stick , and looked about his house , to see. SPITZ AND THE SPARROW . GIANT GOLDEN - BEARD . *. XLV XLVI.
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... Notes , carefully revised , with an Introduction and Bibliography , by C. A. Buch- heim , Ph.D. , Professor of German Language and Literature at King's College , London . [ In the Press . Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland . Edited by A. W. ...
... Notes , carefully revised , with an Introduction and Bibliography , by C. A. Buch- heim , Ph.D. , Professor of German Language and Literature at King's College , London . [ In the Press . Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland . Edited by A. W. ...
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