Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country to CountryWhittaker, 1834 - 354 páginas |
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... heroes of these brilliant fictions , became as familiar and as attrac- tive in the West as they were in the East ; and by a curious casualty , the same tale might be listened to at the same moment in the Syrian or Egyptian coffee ...
... heroes of these brilliant fictions , became as familiar and as attrac- tive in the West as they were in the East ; and by a curious casualty , the same tale might be listened to at the same moment in the Syrian or Egyptian coffee ...
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... hero or heroine being realised in ourselves . This power of yield- ing innocuous pleasure they share with the higher order of poetry , a taste for which has never , I be- lieve , proved anything but beneficial to any mind whatever . In ...
... hero or heroine being realised in ourselves . This power of yield- ing innocuous pleasure they share with the higher order of poetry , a taste for which has never , I be- lieve , proved anything but beneficial to any mind whatever . In ...
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... hero , they gaze With delight on the scenes the narrator displays . DRAWN BY W. H. BROOKE , F. S. A. , ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY G. BAXTER , 1834 . breath , how they laugh and weep , how they. PUBLISHED BY WHITTAKER AND CO . PUBLISHED BY ...
... hero , they gaze With delight on the scenes the narrator displays . DRAWN BY W. H. BROOKE , F. S. A. , ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY G. BAXTER , 1834 . breath , how they laugh and weep , how they. PUBLISHED BY WHITTAKER AND CO . PUBLISHED BY ...
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... hero of the tale , in the magic of the descriptions , and the frenzy of the passions . It is a perfect drama , but one in which the audience are at the same time the actors . Is the hero of the story threatened by imminent danger , they ...
... hero of the tale , in the magic of the descriptions , and the frenzy of the passions . It is a perfect drama , but one in which the audience are at the same time the actors . Is the hero of the story threatened by imminent danger , they ...
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... hero of the greater portion of them , M. Hammer is led from this and other circumstances to infer , that it was at the court of the later Mamlook sultans of Egypt that the work received its present form , and the greater part of its ...
... hero of the greater portion of them , M. Hammer is led from this and other circumstances to infer , that it was at the court of the later Mamlook sultans of Egypt that the work received its present form , and the greater part of its ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amazed Ameen ancient Ansaldo apple Arabian arms asked beautiful green bird began brothers brought called cask castle century child Claremond Cleomades Croppart Dædalus daughter death Edda Emelyan enchanted Fairy Mythology father fée fool Gandharva gave Ghool giant give Grannonia hand heard Hejeer Helgi hero Hilloa Holger Holger Danske horse instantly Irân Irish Italian Kâoos king legend lion Loki maiden Miss Brooke mother mounted never night Ogier original Ossian palace Pentamerone Persian Peruonto pike's command poem poet POPULAR FICTIONS prince princess queen replied Resm returned Richard Whittington romance Roostem says Scandinavia sent Serena serpent Shah Sigrun Siraf sisters Soohrâb Starosta steed stone story sword tale tell thee Thialfi Thor thou told took tree Utgard-Loki Valhall Vastolla Vilkina Saga Völund W. H. BROOKE Whittington wife wood words youth
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Página 17 - Most musical, most melancholy' bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...
Página 9 - A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery- tale of the subsequent ages.
Página 23 - But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
Página 245 - Dick had no property on earth but his cat, and, by his master's orders, he fetched her down from his garret, and committed her to the captain with tears in his eyes, for he said he should now be kept awake all night by the rats and mice. All laughed at Dick's venture, but Miss Alice kindly gave him money to purchase another cat. The ship was driven to the coast of Barbary, and the captain having sent...
Página 20 - As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the North-wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element 490 Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow or shower, If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet, Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Página 230 - Take that,' said he to the fox, aiming a ball at him from his matchlock, and shooting him through the head; ' take that for your not performing my orders. That brute,' said he, ' promised to bring me seven Ghools, that I might chain them, and carry them to Isfahan, and here he has only brought you, who are already my slave.
Página 32 - But with wild beasts the sylvan war to wage, And o'er vast plains their herds and flocks to feed : Blest sons of nature they
Página 250 - That Whittington lived no doubt can be made ; that he was Lord Mayor of London is equally true; but as to his cat, that, gentlemen, is the gordian knot to untie. And here, gentlemen, be it permitted me to define what a cat is. A cat is a domestic, whiskered, four-footed animal, whose employment is catching mice.
Página 20 - As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower ; If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, ' The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Página 25 - The intricate wards, and every bolt and bar Of massy iron or solid rock with ease Unfastens : on a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.