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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... people , " as its truthful pictures of everyday life , and its masterly impersonation of worldly wisdom , have rendered it to the scholar and the philosopher . In Germany , its popularity has been unbounded , far ex- celling even that ...
... people , " as its truthful pictures of everyday life , and its masterly impersonation of worldly wisdom , have rendered it to the scholar and the philosopher . In Germany , its popularity has been unbounded , far ex- celling even that ...
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... people understood the allusion . From hence we may reasonably infer that in the North of France this characteristic fable was then one generation old at least ; that it might , in short , date its rise from the middle of the eleventh ...
... people understood the allusion . From hence we may reasonably infer that in the North of France this characteristic fable was then one generation old at least ; that it might , in short , date its rise from the middle of the eleventh ...
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... people ; two doves flying before the bearers of the image , lead- ing them , like guides , until they came to Hulsterloo . The numbers which then visited it there were so great , as to cause a scarcity of food in Ghent . 66 Hulsterloo ...
... people ; two doves flying before the bearers of the image , lead- ing them , like guides , until they came to Hulsterloo . The numbers which then visited it there were so great , as to cause a scarcity of food in Ghent . 66 Hulsterloo ...
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... people . ยง XI . The poem which we have just examined forms a portion of , or rather is engrafted into , that more extensive work , containing 6596 lines , the " Fabella Lupina , " as it is designated in one of the three manu- scripts ...
... people . ยง XI . The poem which we have just examined forms a portion of , or rather is engrafted into , that more extensive work , containing 6596 lines , the " Fabella Lupina , " as it is designated in one of the three manu- scripts ...
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... , that an earlier poem in the vernacular tongue , and current among the common people , formed the basis of the present work . That the Poem was written between the years 1148 and 1160 , is proved , by the author's apostrophising xxxviii.
... , that an earlier poem in the vernacular tongue , and current among the common people , formed the basis of the present work . That the Poem was written between the years 1148 and 1160 , is proved , by the author's apostrophising xxxviii.
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