English Literature for Boys and GirlsF. A. Stokes Company, 1916 - 686 When we were little, before we could read for ourselves, did we not gather eagerly round father or mother, friend or nurse, at the promise of a story? When we grew older, what happy hours did we not spend with our books. How the printed words made us forget the world in which we live, and carried us away to a wonderland, |
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... STORY OF THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY III . ONE OF THE SORROWS OF STORY - TELLING IV . THE STORY OF A LITERARY LIE V. THE STORY OF FINGAL VI . ABOUT SOME OLD WELSH STORIES AND STORY - TELLERS VII . HOW THE STORY OF ARTHUR WAS WRITTEN IN ...
... STORY OF THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY III . ONE OF THE SORROWS OF STORY - TELLING IV . THE STORY OF A LITERARY LIE V. THE STORY OF FINGAL VI . ABOUT SOME OLD WELSH STORIES AND STORY - TELLERS VII . HOW THE STORY OF ARTHUR WAS WRITTEN IN ...
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... stories . Among the most beautiful and best known of these are perhaps the Three Sorrows of Story- Telling . These three stories are called : The Tragedy of the Children of Lir ; The Tragedy of the Children of Tuireann ; and Deirdre and ...
... stories . Among the most beautiful and best known of these are perhaps the Three Sorrows of Story- Telling . These three stories are called : The Tragedy of the Children of Lir ; The Tragedy of the Children of Tuireann ; and Deirdre and ...
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... story is to France what the Arthur story is to us . And it shows , perhaps , the strength of English patriotic spirit that that story never took hold of English minds . Some few tales there are told of Roland in English , but they are ...
... story is to France what the Arthur story is to us . And it shows , perhaps , the strength of English patriotic spirit that that story never took hold of English minds . Some few tales there are told of Roland in English , but they are ...
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