Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 12Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... great rival , the Merry Jests of Tyll Eulenspiegel . One of the most distinguished of the early German poets , J. W. Lawrenberg , is said to have pronounced it the best book in the world , next to the Bible . * No * See Morhof's ...
... great rival , the Merry Jests of Tyll Eulenspiegel . One of the most distinguished of the early German poets , J. W. Lawrenberg , is said to have pronounced it the best book in the world , next to the Bible . * No * See Morhof's ...
Page ix
... great power of conception and invention , great pictorial fidelity , a warm sunny tone of colouring , are manifest enough . It is full of broad , rustic mirth ; inexhaustible in comic devices : a World - Saturnalia , where Wolves ...
... great power of conception and invention , great pictorial fidelity , a warm sunny tone of colouring , are manifest enough . It is full of broad , rustic mirth ; inexhaustible in comic devices : a World - Saturnalia , where Wolves ...
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... great requisites for the construction of these fables , Grimm speaks as follows : " In the first place , the fable must exhibit the animals as being endowed with human reason , and initiated into all the customs and conditions of our ...
... great requisites for the construction of these fables , Grimm speaks as follows : " In the first place , the fable must exhibit the animals as being endowed with human reason , and initiated into all the customs and conditions of our ...
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... great Gustavus , 66 " To point a moral and adorn a tale . " Grimm produces a host of witnesses to show how widely spread and favourably received Reynard's His- tory was in the days gone by . Gautier de Coinsi , one of the best poets of ...
... great Gustavus , 66 " To point a moral and adorn a tale . " Grimm produces a host of witnesses to show how widely spread and favourably received Reynard's His- tory was in the days gone by . Gautier de Coinsi , one of the best poets of ...
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... great , as to cause a scarcity of food in Ghent . 66 Hulsterloo , by Kieldrect , with its wood , wastes , and moors , was ceded to the abbey of Dronghen in the year 1136. It is very probable that some years after that time , the monks ...
... great , as to cause a scarcity of food in Ghent . 66 Hulsterloo , by Kieldrect , with its wood , wastes , and moors , was ceded to the abbey of Dronghen in the year 1136. It is very probable that some years after that time , the monks ...
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