Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... horses is little ( as it is said ) , and dwell in caves , whence they have received the name Troglodytes from those coming near them.1 Herodotus , indeed , speaks " of a little people , under the middle stature of men , ( coming ' up to ...
... horses is little ( as it is said ) , and dwell in caves , whence they have received the name Troglodytes from those coming near them.1 Herodotus , indeed , speaks " of a little people , under the middle stature of men , ( coming ' up to ...
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... horses , likewise , mules and other beasts do not out- reach . Of these Pygmies , the king of the Indians has three thousand in his train ; for they are very skilful archers . They are , however , most just , and use the same laws as ...
... horses , likewise , mules and other beasts do not out- reach . Of these Pygmies , the king of the Indians has three thousand in his train ; for they are very skilful archers . They are , however , most just , and use the same laws as ...
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... horse , or if it were a 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 ...
... horse , or if it were a 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 ...
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... horses , " clad very magnifi- cently , but all alike , in white and blue , and wore corownes on their heades ; " but they are not called fays in the poem , nor does the word fay or fairie once occur therein . 66 The fairies or elves of ...
... horses , " clad very magnifi- cently , but all alike , in white and blue , and wore corownes on their heades ; " but they are not called fays in the poem , nor does the word fay or fairie once occur therein . 66 The fairies or elves of ...
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... horses in the night ; And bakes the elf - locks in foul sluttish hairs , Which , once untangled , much misfortune bodes . " 1 Ben Jonson , in his " Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althrope , " in 1603 , describes to come ...
... horses in the night ; And bakes the elf - locks in foul sluttish hairs , Which , once untangled , much misfortune bodes . " 1 Ben Jonson , in his " Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althrope , " in 1603 , describes to come ...
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