You look like that little mermaid princess in Anderson’s fairy tales—the one who had to suffer so to get legs like mortals.
Oh, doesn’t she look like the Dame in fairy tales?
A Page from Andersen's Fairy Tales Translated by Rizal Facsimile.
Some idea of Doctor Rizal's own linguistic attainments may be gained from the fact that instead of writing letters to his nephews and nieces he made for them translations of some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.
In other cases, and these are of great importance in coming to a conclusion as to the origin of fairy tales, the mounds inhabited by the little people are of a sepulchral nature.
Footnote A: The quotation is taken from Ritson, Fairy Tales, P.
Your vocation is what calls you’ is all that I have remembered of Brentano’s fairy tales, and what calls me is teaching.
The Pilgrimage of Sorrow,” a cycle of fairy tales, also appeared in 1882.
Winning the gratitude of a bird by killing the snake or dragon that year after year devours its young birds is such a common incident in fairy tales, that I will only mention two instances.
The magic gifts given by the fairies are a common incident in fairy tales: so is the adventure with the jar of ghee.
Winning a wife by seizing her dress while she bathes is an incident common to fairy tales of many countries.
The "fairy tales" of Europe throw very little light upon, are but slightly illuminated by, the histories of the widely differing lands in which they so closely resemble each other.
Fairy tales, adventures, and all sorts of stories for children may be well designed and well written, or the opposite, just as much as books for older people.
At this time of life, as every one knows, fairy tales are an unfailing delight and form the foundations, moreover, of all thorough literary appreciation.
The name Mother Goose, which John Newbery and others associated with nursery rhymes, may have been brought into England from France, where La Mere Oie was connected with the telling of fairy tales as far back as 1650.
Literary prose is found only in fables, fairy tales, romances, and partially in the drama.
The writer of the following tales has endeavoured to bear this principle in mind, and it is hoped that the morals--and it is of the essence of fairy tales to have a moral--of all of them are beyond reproach.
There are older critics before whom fairy tales, as such, need excuse, even if they do not meet with positive disapprobation.
First, that there are ideas and types, occurring in the myths of all countries, which are common properties, to use which does not lay the teller of fairy tales open to the charge of plagiarism.
Monsieur Cavalcanti," said Andrea, "do you believe in fairy tales?
Cama, the pilot of the Saint Ferdinand, went in once, and he came back amazed, vowing that such treasures were only to be heard of in fairy tales.
You are fond of fairy tales, because they are fanciful, and like your dreams.
As a collection of fairy tales to delight children of all ages this work ranks second to none.
The most delightful book of fairy tales, taking form and contents together, ever presented to children.
People that want to marry each other are proverbially subject to hindrances--from the days of fairy tales down to our own.
I am all for Grimm's Fairy Tales; but if there is such a thing as Grimm's Law, I would break it, if I knew what it was.
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