Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country to CountryWhittaker, 1834 - 354 páginas |
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... seen it asserted , Rome was founded by a colony of gypsies from India . I could cite many more cases , but these may suffice . A practice , which has been carried to a most ludicrous extent , is that of supposing that where two or more ...
... seen it asserted , Rome was founded by a colony of gypsies from India . I could cite many more cases , but these may suffice . A practice , which has been carried to a most ludicrous extent , is that of supposing that where two or more ...
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... seen some of Nature's finest scenery , I have conversed with the learned and the inge- nious , and have read the master - works of the human mind ; and yet I am convinced I have never , at most very rarely , felt a degree of plea- sure ...
... seen some of Nature's finest scenery , I have conversed with the learned and the inge- nious , and have read the master - works of the human mind ; and yet I am convinced I have never , at most very rarely , felt a degree of plea- sure ...
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... seen when she secretly entered the robbers ' den , and as she proceeded in her narrative , the disguised robber would get up and say , " Dreams are but feebles , and feebles are but lies ; By your leave , gentlemen , pray let me by ...
... seen when she secretly entered the robbers ' den , and as she proceeded in her narrative , the disguised robber would get up and say , " Dreams are but feebles , and feebles are but lies ; By your leave , gentlemen , pray let me by ...
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... seen that work . 2 " There is a pleasure sure in being mad Which none but madmen know . " Dryden's Spanish Friar . " There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which none but poets know . " - Cowper's Task . Though I think there is imitation ...
... seen that work . 2 " There is a pleasure sure in being mad Which none but madmen know . " Dryden's Spanish Friar . " There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which none but poets know . " - Cowper's Task . Though I think there is imitation ...
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... seen , is precisely the same . Here I will ob- serve , for the benefit of writers of fiction , that minds operate in so similar a manner , that one " 1 Noor - ed - deen signifies light of religion ' : hence the simile readily presented ...
... seen , is precisely the same . Here I will ob- serve , for the benefit of writers of fiction , that minds operate in so similar a manner , that one " 1 Noor - ed - deen signifies light of religion ' : hence the simile readily presented ...
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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.