German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... translated ) , bear the strongest and most minute resemblances . The elements of some of " The Nights [ Notti piacevoli ] of Straparola were published first in 1550 ; but in the latter collection this class of fictions occupies ...
... translated ) , bear the strongest and most minute resemblances . The elements of some of " The Nights [ Notti piacevoli ] of Straparola were published first in 1550 ; but in the latter collection this class of fictions occupies ...
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... translated from the " Ziegenhirt of Ottmar's " Volks Sagen , " or Hartz Legends . The name of Frederic Barbarossa is as- sociated with the earliest cultivation of the muses in Germany . During the Suabian dynasty ( at the head of which ...
... translated from the " Ziegenhirt of Ottmar's " Volks Sagen , " or Hartz Legends . The name of Frederic Barbarossa is as- sociated with the earliest cultivation of the muses in Germany . During the Suabian dynasty ( at the head of which ...
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... translated freely ) clearly has an authentic antiquity of , at any rate , the fourteenth century . It exists as a metrical tale , told in the higher German with great spirit , in a MS . at Heidelberg ( Codex , No. 341 , f . 371 ) , from ...
... translated freely ) clearly has an authentic antiquity of , at any rate , the fourteenth century . It exists as a metrical tale , told in the higher German with great spirit , in a MS . at Heidelberg ( Codex , No. 341 , f . 371 ) , from ...
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... cloak , mile - shoes , and a purse which is always full . * " Ettin Langshanks , " translated from the Kämpe Visir in the Illustrations of Northern Antiquities . thing was left to him but one small plot of 296 EVENING THE TWELFTH . LIV.
... cloak , mile - shoes , and a purse which is always full . * " Ettin Langshanks , " translated from the Kämpe Visir in the Illustrations of Northern Antiquities . thing was left to him but one small plot of 296 EVENING THE TWELFTH . LIV.
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... Translated . By E. Belfort Bax . Voltaire's Tales . Translated by R. B. Boswell . Vol . I. 35. 6d . [ See p . 19 . [ See p . 9 . [ See p . 8 . With the [ See p . 5 . Count Grammont's Memoirs of the Court of Charles II . Boscobel Tracts ...
... Translated . By E. Belfort Bax . Voltaire's Tales . Translated by R. B. Boswell . Vol . I. 35. 6d . [ See p . 19 . [ See p . 9 . [ See p . 8 . With the [ See p . 5 . Count Grammont's Memoirs of the Court of Charles II . Boscobel Tracts ...
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