The Seven Sages of Rome

Capa
Killis Campbell
Ginn, 1907 - 217 páginas
 

Outras edições - Ver todos

Termos e frases comuns

Passagens mais conhecidas

Página lxiv - ... entertainment. In many Pleasant and Witty Tales, or Stories: wherein The Treachery of Evil Counsellors is discovered, . . . Newly Corrected. . . . The Five and twentieth Edition. Printed for J. Hodges, on London Bridge ; and J. Johnston in St. Paul's Church-yard.
Página lxiv - The / HISTORY /of the / Seven Wise MASTERS / of / ROME : / containing / Seven Days Entertainment. / In many Pleasant and Witty Tales or Stories : / Wherein / The Treachery of Evil Counsellors is discovered ; / Innocency cleared; And, The Wisdom of Seven / Wise PHILOSOPHERS displayed.
Página civ - London, 1901, pp. 331 f.) ; (53) * Charles Johnson, The Ephesian Matron^; (54) W. Popple, The Ephesian Matron, a Tragi-Comedy of One Act, British Museum MS. Addl. i86i42 ; (55) John Ogilby, The Ephesian Matron*; (56) Isaac Bickerstaffe, The Ephesian Matron, a Comic Serenata, after the Manner of the Italian, London, 1769; (57) Talmudic Tosiphtaoth to Kiddushin, folio 8ob (see PI Hershon, A Talmudic Miscellany, London, 1880, p. 28) ; (58) A. Sulzbach, Dichterkldnge aus Spaniens besseren Tagen, Frankfurt-am-Main,...
Página lxi - Imprinted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of the Rose Garland, by me William Copland.
Página lxv - The Famous History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome; Containing, Many Excellent and Delightful Examples, with their Explanations, etc..
Página lxiv - London, Printed by JW for G. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little Britain, 1697. In black-letter, with wood-cuts. The history of these very popular tales has been given by Mr. Wright, in the preface to his edition of the Seven Sages, 1845. A small abridged version, of twenty-four pages, was circulated during the last century as a penny-history.
Página xii - A young prince is tempted by his stepmother, the queen. She, being rebuffed by him, accuses him of attempting to violate her, and he is condemned to death. His life is saved by seven wise men, who secure a stay of execution of the royal decree by entertaining the king through seven days with tales showing the wickedness of woman, the queen meantime recounting stories to offset those of the sages. On the eighth day the prince, who has remained silent up to that time, speaks in his own defence, and...
Página liii - And 3e schal here how hit was. He adde a sone that was heyre, A good childe and a fayre; Thay wente and breken that tour, And bare away mykyl tresoure, And mad hym myry, and spendid faste, Al the wylle that hit wolde laste. He that lokyd the tresour, Come a day into the tour, And over-al he keste hys syght, To loke whehir hit ferde ryght. He was freche...
Página 112 - Bot til the erl he rides ful right, And of his palfray down he lyght ; On his kne sone he him set, And the erl ful faire he gret.
Página liii - On the falle swich a cas Als fil on Ypocras the gode clerk, That slow his neveu with fals werk.

Informações bibliográficas