German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... round the fire ; Lending open ear and faith To what some learned gossip saith ! But the fays and all are gone , Reason , Reason , reigns alone ; Every grace and charm is fled , All by dulness banished ! Thus we ponder , slow and sad ...
... round the fire ; Lending open ear and faith To what some learned gossip saith ! But the fays and all are gone , Reason , Reason , reigns alone ; Every grace and charm is fled , All by dulness banished ! Thus we ponder , slow and sad ...
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... were told in that country ; and every evening about Christmas time the boys and girls of the neighbourhood gathered round her to hear her tell them some of her budget of strange stories . One Christmas , being in that part of the world.
... were told in that country ; and every evening about Christmas time the boys and girls of the neighbourhood gathered round her to hear her tell them some of her budget of strange stories . One Christmas , being in that part of the world.
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... round . in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess . One gave her goodness , another beauty , an- other riches , and so on till she had all that was good in the world . Just as eleven of them had done blessing her ...
... round . in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess . One gave her goodness , another beauty , an- other riches , and so on till she had all that was good in the world . Just as eleven of them had done blessing her ...
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... round ! " said the prin- cess , and took the spindle and began to try and spin . But scarcely had she touched it , before the fairy's pro- phecy was fulfilled ; the spindle wounded her , and she fell down lifeless on the ground ...
... round ! " said the prin- cess , and took the spindle and began to try and spin . But scarcely had she touched it , before the fairy's pro- phecy was fulfilled ; the spindle wounded her , and she fell down lifeless on the ground ...
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... round the pa- lace , and every year it became higher and thicker ; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden , so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen . But there went a report through all the land of the ...
... round the pa- lace , and every year it became higher and thicker ; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden , so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen . But there went a report through all the land of the ...
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