German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... never , we believe , 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 ...
... never , we believe , 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 ...
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... never could hear . THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE . * THERE was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigstye , close by the sea - side . The fisherman used to go out all day long a - fishing ; and one day , as he sat on the shore ...
... never could hear . THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE . * THERE was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigstye , close by the sea - side . The fisherman used to go out all day long a - fishing ; and one day , as he sat on the shore ...
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... never have anything more to wish for as long as we live . " " I don't know how that may be , " said she ; " never is a long time . I am king , it is true ; but I begin to be tired of that , and I think I should like to be emperor ...
... never have anything more to wish for as long as we live . " " I don't know how that may be , " said she ; " never is a long time . I am king , it is true ; but I begin to be tired of that , and I think I should like to be emperor ...
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... never have my daughter , unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window . " Now this hill was so big that all the men in the whole world could not have taken it away : and when THE FOX'S BRUSH . 19.
... never have my daughter , unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window . " Now this hill was so big that all the men in the whole world could not have taken it away : and when THE FOX'S BRUSH . 19.
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... never be again vic- torious , and should be hereafter wedded . " - Herbert's Miscell . Poetry , vol . ii . p . 23. Though the allusion to the Sleep - rose is preserved in our heroine's name , she suffers from the wound of a spindle , as ...
... never be again vic- torious , and should be hereafter wedded . " - Herbert's Miscell . Poetry , vol . ii . p . 23. Though the allusion to the Sleep - rose is preserved in our heroine's name , she suffers from the wound of a spindle , as ...
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