Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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Joseph Ritson. Fairy Tales LEGENDS AND ROMANCES ILLUSTRATING SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED TWO PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS 1. On Pigmies 2. On Fairies BY JOSEPH RITSON LONDON FRANK & WILLIAM KERSLAKE ...
Joseph Ritson. Fairy Tales LEGENDS AND ROMANCES ILLUSTRATING SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED TWO PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS 1. On Pigmies 2. On Fairies BY JOSEPH RITSON LONDON FRANK & WILLIAM KERSLAKE ...
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... fairies were the most important persons of the drama . Two scarce books are here amalgamated , and made accessible to the student . Ritson's Fairy Tales , 1831 , contains matter not in Halliwell's Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of ...
... fairies were the most important persons of the drama . Two scarce books are here amalgamated , and made accessible to the student . Ritson's Fairy Tales , 1831 , contains matter not in Halliwell's Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of ...
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... here a proof that the existence of Pygmies is not entirely fabulous , as nothing can nearer approach the description of them.1 1 Vol . i . p . 231 , & c . II . On Fairies . THE HE earliest mention of ∞ FAIRY MYTHOLOGY .
... here a proof that the existence of Pygmies is not entirely fabulous , as nothing can nearer approach the description of them.1 1 Vol . i . p . 231 , & c . II . On Fairies . THE HE earliest mention of ∞ FAIRY MYTHOLOGY .
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Joseph Ritson. II . On Fairies . THE HE earliest mention of FAIRIES is made by Homer , if , that is , his English translator have , in this instance , done him justice- " Where round the bed , whence Achelöus springs , The wat❜ry FAIRIES ...
Joseph Ritson. II . On Fairies . THE HE earliest mention of FAIRIES is made by Homer , if , that is , his English translator have , in this instance , done him justice- " Where round the bed , whence Achelöus springs , The wat❜ry FAIRIES ...
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... fairy ( fadus ) , as men assert . " From the Roman de Partenay , or De Lusignan , MS . , Du Cange cites- " Le chasteau fut fait d'une fée Si comme il est partout retrait . " Hence , he says , faërie for spectres- " Plusieurs ... FAIRIES . II.
... fairy ( fadus ) , as men assert . " From the Roman de Partenay , or De Lusignan , MS . , Du Cange cites- " Le chasteau fut fait d'une fée Si comme il est partout retrait . " Hence , he says , faërie for spectres- " Plusieurs ... FAIRIES . II.
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Artour blode child Claia commaund dæmon dance dayes doth Dream drinke elves eyes fair fairies fayre fayries feare feyre forto Gerames Gervase of Tilbury give gode gold grace grete hath heard horne horse Jocastus king Arthur king Oberon knyzt kyng lady laughing lond lord maid marvaile mayde merry Midsummer Night's Dream Mopsus mortal mother never night noble nymphs o'er pinch pray Puck Queen Mab quene quoth Huon quoth Oberon Reginald Scot Robin Good-fellow round ryche ryde sayd schall sche seyde shal shalbe shalt shee shew sing Sir Gawen song speake spirits stede sweet syr Launfal TALE thee ther things Thomas told Tom Thumb unther unto wende whan whyt wold woman wood word wyll wyth