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Title: Lays and ballads from English history, etc
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Smedley, Menella Bute, 1819 or 20-1877
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Publisher: London, E. Lumley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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UENTIN MATSYS,the Famous Painterof the Mifers, etc., at Antwerp, and alfo ofJohannes Schoreel, the Flemifh Painter,and Friend of Albert Durer. Elegantly tranf-lated from the German, with Notice of theAuthorefs, Caroline Pichler. One of the moft celebrated German writers, occupying animportant ftation in the imaginative literature of the prefentage.— Tk im m. Greatly excels in the defcription of character and in paint-ing the human heart, as portrayed in the domeftic or hiftorical •novel, captivating alfo her readers by her fkill in the arrange-ment and management of her fubjedt., and in her maftery overher materials. Her ftyle, like her fentiments, is redolent of the fterlingnobility of nature, her language both lucid and felecl:. PILPAY, FABLES, a Companion tothe Arabian Nights. According to SirWm. Jones the moft excellent, the moftbeautiful, if not the moft Ancient Fables,or more properly fpeaking Tales, extantin the World. They were defcribed as MR. LUMLEY, 40, COWER STREET. 41
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Specimen of Illujlrations to Peter Schlemihl pag MR. LUMLEY, 40, COWER STREET. containing the Wisdom of All Ages, theHead Spring of Oriental Wifdom, the Touch-flone of Knowledge, and for ages the Wonderand Delight of the Eaft. So greatly admireddid they become, that there is no book ex-cept the Bible of which fo manyverfions havebeen made. Their origin, which it is nowimpoffible to determine, was undoubtedly inHindoftan ; and, judging from internal evi-dence, they muft have been compofed fubfe-quently to the Fifth Century. Thefe produc-tions were attributed to Vifhnufarma, whomwe ridiculoufly call Pilpay, a corruption ofBidpai, the wife man and the flory teller. Hewas evidently an Indian Fabulift, a Brahmin,and a Councillor of State to one of the Ra-jahs. So early as the fixth century they weretranflated from the Sanfcrit, the Parent Stock,and more recently from the Hitopadefa, anabridgment. The Arabic verfion firft intro-duced thefe Fables to Weftern Afia and Eu-rope, and they were c

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