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Page 243
... known y the name of Tooti Nameh , or Tales of a Parrot . There were few works of any celebrity , written in ' rance in imitation of the tales of the Queen of Navarre . The stories in the Nouvelles Recreations ou Contes Nou- eaux have ...
... known y the name of Tooti Nameh , or Tales of a Parrot . There were few works of any celebrity , written in ' rance in imitation of the tales of the Queen of Navarre . The stories in the Nouvelles Recreations ou Contes Nou- eaux have ...
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John Colin Dunlop. means of the well - known work of Belleforest , ' and wer imitated in the Histoires Tragiques of Rosset , one whose stories [ No. 5 ] is the foundation of the most cele brated drama of Ford , who has indeed chosen a ...
John Colin Dunlop. means of the well - known work of Belleforest , ' and wer imitated in the Histoires Tragiques of Rosset , one whose stories [ No. 5 ] is the foundation of the most cele brated drama of Ford , who has indeed chosen a ...
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... known , and laid himself out to please the popular taste . His earlier efforts were in verse . His Patrañuelo , or Storyteller , ( 1st art ) , was published in 1576 , but was not continued . Its materials are drawn from widely different ...
... known , and laid himself out to please the popular taste . His earlier efforts were in verse . His Patrañuelo , or Storyteller , ( 1st art ) , was published in 1576 , but was not continued . Its materials are drawn from widely different ...
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... known . The following is the list given by M. E. Schwan , on p . 240 of Nos . 50 , 51 , of the Romania , Avril - Juillet , 1884 , of the seventy - four stories contained in the Vie des Anciens Pères ( MS . Bib . Nat . Fr. 1546 , anc ...
... known . The following is the list given by M. E. Schwan , on p . 240 of Nos . 50 , 51 , of the Romania , Avril - Juillet , 1884 , of the seventy - four stories contained in the Vie des Anciens Pères ( MS . Bib . Nat . Fr. 1546 , anc ...
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... known saints was subsequently extracted . There we find the account of St. George and the Dragon , and also of the Sleepers of Ephesus ; -a story which Gibbon has not disdained to introduce into his history ( c . 33 ) , and so universal ...
... known saints was subsequently extracted . There we find the account of St. George and the Dragon , and also of the Sleepers of Ephesus ; -a story which Gibbon has not disdained to introduce into his history ( c . 33 ) , and so universal ...
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