Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country to CountryWhittaker, 1834 - 354 páginas |
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... Kâoos , and give the crown to Roostem ; then return , and hurl Afrâsiâb also from his royal seat , and Roostem should be the lord of the whole earth . Forthwith Soohrâb began to assemble an army . For himself he sought a horse whose ...
... Kâoos , and give the crown to Roostem ; then return , and hurl Afrâsiâb also from his royal seat , and Roostem should be the lord of the whole earth . Forthwith Soohrâb began to assemble an army . For himself he sought a horse whose ...
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... Kâoos . " His grand- father gave him horses , mules , arms and treasure for the war against Irân , and joyful thereat was the young Lion - heart . Afrâsiâb , hearing of the warlike preparations of Soohrâb , sent two of his warriors ...
... Kâoos . " His grand- father gave him horses , mules , arms and treasure for the war against Irân , and joyful thereat was the young Lion - heart . Afrâsiâb , hearing of the warlike preparations of Soohrâb , sent two of his warriors ...
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... Kâoos ordered Toos to seize them both , and hang them on a gallows . But Roostem , kindling in anger , recounted all he had done for the royal line of Irân , and for Ky Kâoos in par- ticular , and then set out homewards , declaring he ...
... Kâoos ordered Toos to seize them both , and hang them on a gallows . But Roostem , kindling in anger , recounted all he had done for the royal line of Irân , and for Ky Kâoos in par- ticular , and then set out homewards , declaring he ...
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... Kâoos , " we will enjoy the banquet , tomorrow we march to the field . " In the morning , when the sun had torn the black veil ( of night ) , Kâoos issued pay to his army : 100,000 men came with shield and corse- let ; the land was ...
... Kâoos , " we will enjoy the banquet , tomorrow we march to the field . " In the morning , when the sun had torn the black veil ( of night ) , Kâoos issued pay to his army : 100,000 men came with shield and corse- let ; the land was ...
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... Kâoos , summoned the Pahlu- wâns to the combat , but none ventured to reply . He came close to the tents , and then the Shah sent Toos to carry the tidings to Roostem . " The day of battle is my day of work , " said the Pure 1 This ...
... Kâoos , summoned the Pahlu- wâns to the combat , but none ventured to reply . He came close to the tents , and then the Shah sent Toos to carry the tidings to Roostem . " The day of battle is my day of work , " said the Pure 1 This ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amazed Ameen ancient Ansaldo apple arms asked beautiful green bird began brothers brought called cask castle century child Claremond Cleomades cried Croppart daughter death Edda Emelyan enchanted Fairy Mythology father fée Finn Magnussen fool gave Ghool giant give Grannonia hand head heard Hejeer Helgi hero Hilloa Holger Holger Danske horse host instantly Irân Irish Italian Kâoos king knew legend lion Loki look maiden mother mounted never night Odin Ogier original Ossian palace Pentamerone Persian Peruonto pike's command poem poet POPULAR FICTIONS prince princess queen replied Resm returned Richard Whittington romance Roostem says Scandinavia sent Serena serpent Shah Sigrun Siraf sisters Soohrâb Starosta steed stone story sword tale tell thee Thialfi Thor thou thought told took tree Utgard-Loki Valhall Vastolla Vilkina Saga Völund Whittington wood words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 20 - As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north-wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the lowering element Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow or shower : If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Página 17 - was pierc'd With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow,) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain, And many a poet echoes the conceit
Página 23 - But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
Página 235 - AD 1613), the Citizen says to the Prologue, " Why could not you be contented as well as others with the Legend of Whittington ? or the Life and Death of Sir Thomas Gresham, with the Building of the Royal Exchange ? or the story of Queen Eleanor, with the Rearing of London Bridge upon Woolsacks?
Página 32 - Depicted was the patriarchal age ; What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land And pastured on from verdant stage to stage, Where fields and fountains fresh could best engage. Toil was not then: of nothing took they
Página 207 - walking backwards and forwards in the next room, and saying to himself, " Though here you lodge with me this night, You shall not see the morning light, My club shall dash your brains out quite.
Página 25 - on a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder,"—
Página 27 - Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub And bush with frizzled hair implicit.
Página 32 - But with wild beasts the silvan war to wage, And o'er vast plains their herds and flocks to feed. Blest sons of nature they ! true golden age indeed!
Página 292 - so horsly and so quik of eye, As it a gentil Poileis courser were ; For certes fro his tayl unto his ere Nature ne art ne coud him not amend In no degree, as all the peple wend.