The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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... Fables ( first published as illustrations to a Paris edition ) , and existing as it does only in the large quarto form given to those illustrations , it cannot make any claim to be a handy - volume edition . Mr. Wright's translation ...
... Fables ( first published as illustrations to a Paris edition ) , and existing as it does only in the large quarto form given to those illustrations , it cannot make any claim to be a handy - volume edition . Mr. Wright's translation ...
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... fables , whose places were , as Mr. Wright stated in his preface , filled by six original fables of his own . From his " Notice " affixed to this sixth edition , it seems evident that he by no means relished the task , usually a hateful ...
... fables , whose places were , as Mr. Wright stated in his preface , filled by six original fables of his own . From his " Notice " affixed to this sixth edition , it seems evident that he by no means relished the task , usually a hateful ...
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Jean de La Fontaine J. W. M. Gibbs. England , we believe ) the substituted fables of his sixth edition . We may add , that they appeared in lieu of the following five fables as given in Mr. Wright's complete edition — and in the present ...
Jean de La Fontaine J. W. M. Gibbs. England , we believe ) the substituted fables of his sixth edition . We may add , that they appeared in lieu of the following five fables as given in Mr. Wright's complete edition — and in the present ...
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... J'ai du moins ouvert le chemin . " However this may be , I am , gratefully , Your obedient servant , DORCHESTER , September , 1841 . ELIZUR WRIGHT , Jr. A PREFACE , ON FABLE , THE FABULISTS , AND xvi ADVERTISEMENT [ 1841 ] .
... J'ai du moins ouvert le chemin . " However this may be , I am , gratefully , Your obedient servant , DORCHESTER , September , 1841 . ELIZUR WRIGHT , Jr. A PREFACE , ON FABLE , THE FABULISTS , AND xvi ADVERTISEMENT [ 1841 ] .
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... fable blossomed and ripened in the remotest antiquity . We see it mingling itself with the primeval history of all nations . It is not improbable that many of the narratives which have been preserved for us , by the bark or parchment of ...
... fable blossomed and ripened in the remotest antiquity . We see it mingling itself with the primeval history of all nations . It is not improbable that many of the narratives which have been preserved for us , by the bark or parchment of ...
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