 | Gerald Ephraim Hart - 1890 - 322 pages
...Emigrants : 988 GESNER. Industrial Resources of Nova Scotia. Map and plates. 8° cloth. Halifax, 1849 989 GESTA Romanorum; or Entertaining Moral Stories. Invented by the Monks as a f1reside recreation, and translated from the Latin by the Rev. Chas. Swan. New edition, with an I ntroduction,... | |
 | C.F. Libbie & Co - 1891 - 310 pages
...Joannes rynman de Oringaw in officina industrij. Henrici grau, etc. Hagenow, 1482 1300 GESTA Romanorutn ; or Entertaining Moral Stories. Invented by the Monks as a fireside recreation, and translated from the Latin by the Rev. Chas. Swan. 2 vols. 12° half crushed levant morocco extra, uncut... | |
 | Thomas Newbigging - 1896 - 172 pages
...righted itself, I am not sure.' Our remarks on the fables of Pilpay are equally applicable to the'Gesta Romanorum' or 'Entertaining Moral Stories' invented by the monks as a fireside recreation in the Middle Ages. Most of them are recitals of adventures rather than fables. They are believed to... | |
 | Thomas Newbigging - 1898 - 254 pages
...as in the simplicity and spontaneity, of y£sop. The same remark holds good with regard to the Gesfa Romanorum, or Entertaining Moral Stories invented by the monks as a fireside recreation in he Middle Ages. These are believed to be of English origin, though a similar Gesta, composed of... | |
 | 1906 - 642 pages
...Drayton's works published in his lifetime, and all modern reprints and editions to date. Gesta Romanorum. Entertaining moral stories invented by the monks as...whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others have extracted their plots. Translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious notes... | |
 | 1906 - 532 pages
...Drayton's works published in his lifetime, and all modern reprints and editions to date. Gesta Romanorum. Entertaining moral stories invented by the monks as...the pulpit, whence the most celebrated of our own pouts and others have extracted their plots. Translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations... | |
 | Harvey Rowland - 1836 - 140 pages
...edges gilt, uncut. Sproul, New York, 1900 Sprout's elegant limited edition. No. 457 of 1000 sets. 742 Gesta Romanorum, or Entertaining Moral Stories. Invented...commonly applied in their Discourses from the Pulpit. Translated by Rev. Chas. Swan. New edition by Thos. Wright. 2 vols. l2mo, cloth, uncut. New York (London),... | |
 | American Art Association - 1915 - 180 pages
...respectfully requesting favorable mention in the President's forthcoming message, &e. 1149. SWAN (CHARLES). Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Moral Stories; invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Recreation. Translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious notes. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols.... | |
 | Johann Georg Theodor Grässe - 1922 - 566 pages
...aux véritables.) Aberdeen 1715. in-12. Lond., A. B(ettes*orthr). 1722. in-12. Glasgon 1 753. ¡n-!6. Gesta Romanorum or Entertaining Moral Stories ; Invented by the Monks as a Fire - Side Recreation and commonly applied in their discourses from the Pulpit whence the most celebrated... | |
 | Somadeva Bhaṭṭa - 1928 - 374 pages
...by . . . Camden Society. No. 1. 1850. [II, 114n.] WRIGHT, THOMAS. Gcsta Romanorum or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Recreation...commonly applied in their Discourses from the Pulpit. New Edition, with an Introduction by ... 2 vols. Ldn. 1871 (date at end of Preface). [I, 1oin1, 116n2... | |
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GESTA ROMANORUM ; or, ENTERTAINING MORAL STORIES, invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Recreation, and commonly applied in their Discourses from the Pulpit : from whence the most celebrated of our own Poets and others, from the earliest Times, have extracted... 
