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... Paris.2 1 Ellis's " Early Metrical Romances , " vol . iii . See also Comparetti , Ricerche intorno al libro di Sindibad , Milano , 1869. At the end of Landau's " Quellen des Decamerone " will be found a tabular statement of the stories ...
... Paris.2 1 Ellis's " Early Metrical Romances , " vol . iii . See also Comparetti , Ricerche intorno al libro di Sindibad , Milano , 1869. At the end of Landau's " Quellen des Decamerone " will be found a tabular statement of the stories ...
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... Paris , and died in 1362. The composition of the Gesta has been assigned by Warton to this monk , on the autho- rity of Salomon Glassius , a theologist of Saxe Gotha , who points him out as the author in his Philologiae Sacrae , and ...
... Paris , and died in 1362. The composition of the Gesta has been assigned by Warton to this monk , on the autho- rity of Salomon Glassius , a theologist of Saxe Gotha , who points him out as the author in his Philologiae Sacrae , and ...
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... Paris adopts this orthography ; as for Fabliau in the singular , he declares this a barbarism in old as well as in modern French . of which were called Romaine , or Romance , from CH . VII . ] 23 CONTES ET FABLIAUX .
... Paris adopts this orthography ; as for Fabliau in the singular , he declares this a barbarism in old as well as in modern French . of which were called Romaine , or Romance , from CH . VII . ] 23 CONTES ET FABLIAUX .
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... Warnke , mit vergleichenden Anmerkungen von Reinhold Köhler , Halle , 1885 , and M. G. Paris ' critique thereon in Romania , Nos . 55 , 6 . from each other ; they more probably borrowed from the CH . VII . ] 29 CONTES ET FABLIAUX .
... Warnke , mit vergleichenden Anmerkungen von Reinhold Köhler , Halle , 1885 , and M. G. Paris ' critique thereon in Romania , Nos . 55 , 6 . from each other ; they more probably borrowed from the CH . VII . ] 29 CONTES ET FABLIAUX .
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... Paris ) to Compiègne , met on the way three blind men seeking alms . Here , said he , pretend- ing to give them something , is a besant ; you will take care to divide it equally , it is intended for you all three . Though no one got the ...
... Paris ) to Compiègne , met on the way three blind men seeking alms . Here , said he , pretend- ing to give them something , is a besant ; you will take care to divide it equally , it is intended for you all three . Though no one got the ...
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Page 294 - ... grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
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