The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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Jean de La Fontaine J. W. M. Gibbs. CHISWICK PRESS : -C . WHITTINGHAM AND CO . , TOOKS COURT , CHANCERY LANE . PQ 1811 E3 PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION , шь.
Jean de La Fontaine J. W. M. Gibbs. CHISWICK PRESS : -C . WHITTINGHAM AND CO . , TOOKS COURT , CHANCERY LANE . PQ 1811 E3 PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION , шь.
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... court . Indeed , we may look in vain through this encyclopædia of fable for a sentiment which goes to justify the strong in their oppression of the weak . Even in the midst of the fulsome compliments which it was the fashion of his age ...
... court . Indeed , we may look in vain through this encyclopædia of fable for a sentiment which goes to justify the strong in their oppression of the weak . Even in the midst of the fulsome compliments which it was the fashion of his age ...
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... court 2 Did rather boastfully report , The troops commanded by his master's firman , As being a stronger army than ... court . - The court of the " Holy Roman Empire " is here meant . XIII . THE THIEVES AND THE ASS.1 Two thieves , 14 ...
... court 2 Did rather boastfully report , The troops commanded by his master's firman , As being a stronger army than ... court . - The court of the " Holy Roman Empire " is here meant . XIII . THE THIEVES AND THE ASS.1 Two thieves , 14 ...
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... court well was no trifling art . Two widows chiefly gain'd his heart ; The one yet green , the other more mature , Who found for nature's wane in art a cure . These dames , amidst their joking and caressing The man they long'd to wed ...
... court well was no trifling art . Two widows chiefly gain'd his heart ; The one yet green , the other more mature , Who found for nature's wane in art a cure . These dames , amidst their joking and caressing The man they long'd to wed ...
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... court has suck'd the oyster.1 XXII . THE OAK AND THE REED.2 THE oak one day address'd the reed : - ' To you ungenerous indeed : - Has nature been , my humble friend , With weakness aye obliged to bend . The smallest bird that flits in ...
... court has suck'd the oyster.1 XXII . THE OAK AND THE REED.2 THE oak one day address'd the reed : - ' To you ungenerous indeed : - Has nature been , my humble friend , With weakness aye obliged to bend . The smallest bird that flits in ...
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