Notes and Queries, Volumen79Oxford University Press, 1889 |
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... Story of the Fisherman's Son , ' in the Wortley Montagu MS . of ' The Nights ' * -a second talisman was necessary to the hero for two purposes : ( 1 ) to enable him to escape from the cave by means of the slave of the ring ; and ( 2 ) ...
... Story of the Fisherman's Son , ' in the Wortley Montagu MS . of ' The Nights ' * -a second talisman was necessary to the hero for two purposes : ( 1 ) to enable him to escape from the cave by means of the slave of the ring ; and ( 2 ) ...
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... story , which bears out , I think , my opinion that the author of the tale of Aladdin has greatly blundered in representing the lamp as requiring to be rubbed , and not lighted . The appearance of one or more of the four attend- ant ...
... story , which bears out , I think , my opinion that the author of the tale of Aladdin has greatly blundered in representing the lamp as requiring to be rubbed , and not lighted . The appearance of one or more of the four attend- ant ...
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... story of a young English lady , re- turning from school in England to her parents in Australia , but wrecked , and all the party slain but herself . She was taken by the blacks , and had been forced to live with them ever since . I ...
... story of a young English lady , re- turning from school in England to her parents in Australia , but wrecked , and all the party slain but herself . She was taken by the blacks , and had been forced to live with them ever since . I ...
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... story mentioned by your correspondent is told , but there is a similar legend in Transylvanian folk - lore , which is as follows . The Hospodar Negru , who reigned from 1513 to 1521 , was taken by the Turks as a hostage to ...
... story mentioned by your correspondent is told , but there is a similar legend in Transylvanian folk - lore , which is as follows . The Hospodar Negru , who reigned from 1513 to 1521 , was taken by the Turks as a hostage to ...
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... story of the heroic deed and the accompanying wish as a pure fable . M. I. J. Sir David Gam is stated by Dr. Clark to be of the family of Games of Newton , of the great house of Maenarch . See his fine work , ' Genealogies of Morgan and ...
... story of the heroic deed and the accompanying wish as a pure fable . M. I. J. Sir David Gam is stated by Dr. Clark to be of the family of Games of Newton , of the great house of Maenarch . See his fine work , ' Genealogies of Morgan and ...
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Página 85 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Página 118 - O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird...
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Página 225 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Página 25 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
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Página 199 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell...
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