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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Page xii
... they saw around them resembled the human race , that , in some , as in sharpness of sight , quickness of hearing , and acuteness of the organs of smell , they far excelled them , gave rise to numerous suppositions as to the relationship ...
... they saw around them resembled the human race , that , in some , as in sharpness of sight , quickness of hearing , and acuteness of the organs of smell , they far excelled them , gave rise to numerous suppositions as to the relationship ...
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... they are characterized in the Reynardine fables , afforded by the Abbot Guibert de Nogent in his Autobiography . It proves them to have been as familiar to the natives of Picardy at the commencement of the twelfth century , as the ...
... they are characterized in the Reynardine fables , afforded by the Abbot Guibert de Nogent in his Autobiography . It proves them to have been as familiar to the natives of Picardy at the commencement of the twelfth century , as the ...
Page xix
... they been so , the old French appellative of the fox , Goupil , and not the Teutonic Reinard , would have obtained as the name of the hero ) , but that the German writers had reason on their side when they claimed the credit of this ...
... they been so , the old French appellative of the fox , Goupil , and not the Teutonic Reinard , would have obtained as the name of the hero ) , but that the German writers had reason on their side when they claimed the credit of this ...
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Percy Society. fifth and sixth centuries , when they used the yet un- alloyed German tongue , dulled by no influx of the Gaulish language — that they took the fables with them from Germany across the Rhine . ” * § VII . The next question ...
Percy Society. fifth and sixth centuries , when they used the yet un- alloyed German tongue , dulled by no influx of the Gaulish language — that they took the fables with them from Germany across the Rhine . ” * § VII . The next question ...
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... they are arguing the point , which they do at considerable length , a peasant passes along carrying a ham . Reynard makes his uncle a proposal that they should rob the peasant ; his uncle agrees to do so ; and accordingly Reynard ...
... they are arguing the point , which they do at considerable length , a peasant passes along carrying a ham . Reynard makes his uncle a proposal that they should rob the peasant ; his uncle agrees to do so ; and accordingly Reynard ...
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