Gesta Romanorum: Entertaining Moral Stories ; Invented by the Monks as a Fireside Recreation, and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit, Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their PlotsWynnard Hooper G. Bell & sons, 1905 - 425 pages |
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Page xxxi
... same manner as different stories are introduced in the Greek Syntipas , the Italian Erastus , and English Wise Masters . " - DUNLOP , Hist . of Fiction , vol . ii . p . 170 . or reign of a Roman emperor ; who , at INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
... same manner as different stories are introduced in the Greek Syntipas , the Italian Erastus , and English Wise Masters . " - DUNLOP , Hist . of Fiction , vol . ii . p . 170 . or reign of a Roman emperor ; who , at INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
Page xxxii
... reign of Queen Elizabeth is proved by many allusions in the works of that period . In an anonymous comedy , published early in the following reign , entitled Sir Giles Goosecap , we have : " Then for your lordship's quips and quick ...
... reign of Queen Elizabeth is proved by many allusions in the works of that period . In an anonymous comedy , published early in the following reign , entitled Sir Giles Goosecap , we have : " Then for your lordship's quips and quick ...
Page xli
... reign of one PLEBENS , according to the MS . It should be premised that the first part of the story resembles Tale LXIX . " A law was made at Rome that the sentinels of the city should each night examine what was passing in all the ...
... reign of one PLEBENS , according to the MS . It should be premised that the first part of the story resembles Tale LXIX . " A law was made at Rome that the sentinels of the city should each night examine what was passing in all the ...
Page xlii
... reign of Henry the Fifth . This is related in Heywood's History of Women , under the title of The faire ladie of Norwich , and has crept into Blomefield's History of Norfolk in a very extraordinary manner , unaccompanied with any com ...
... reign of Henry the Fifth . This is related in Heywood's History of Women , under the title of The faire ladie of Norwich , and has crept into Blomefield's History of Norfolk in a very extraordinary manner , unaccompanied with any com ...
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... reign in the bosom of bliss . That we may le thought worthy the Father , Son , & c . TALE II . OF MERCY . THE Emperor Titus made a law , that whosoever provided not for his parents should be condemned to death . It happened that there ...
... reign in the bosom of bliss . That we may le thought worthy the Father , Son , & c . TALE II . OF MERCY . THE Emperor Titus made a law , that whosoever provided not for his parents should be condemned to death . It happened that there ...
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