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... story- tellers from immemorial antiquity , and must have attained a very high degree of perfection in medieval times . But the writ- ten saga of the manuscript is but a pale ghost of the tale that once was told , and ... STORY - TELLER 183.
... story- tellers from immemorial antiquity , and must have attained a very high degree of perfection in medieval times . But the writ- ten saga of the manuscript is but a pale ghost of the tale that once was told , and ... STORY - TELLER 183.
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... story - tellers . These are not isolated examples . From Micilín Mac Donncha of Cárna ( ob . 1931 ) , I compiled in a few hours a preliminary list of over two hundred folk - tales and anecdotes . Éamonn Búrc , another story - teller of ...
... story - tellers . These are not isolated examples . From Micilín Mac Donncha of Cárna ( ob . 1931 ) , I compiled in a few hours a preliminary list of over two hundred folk - tales and anecdotes . Éamonn Búrc , another story - teller of ...
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... story imprisoned in the tangled net of this beloved verbiage . But we should bear in mind that obscurity of language held an attrac- tion for the pedantically minded though unlettered listener . One old story - teller friend of mine ...
... story imprisoned in the tangled net of this beloved verbiage . But we should bear in mind that obscurity of language held an attrac- tion for the pedantically minded though unlettered listener . One old story - teller friend of mine ...
Contents
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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