The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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Page xv
... hope the best - natured of poets , as well as yourselves , will forgive me , and lay the blame on the better qualified , who have so long neglected the task . Cowper should have done it . The author of " John Gilpin , " and the ...
... hope the best - natured of poets , as well as yourselves , will forgive me , and lay the blame on the better qualified , who have so long neglected the task . Cowper should have done it . The author of " John Gilpin , " and the ...
Page xvi
... hope to be pardoned for mentioning some of the individuals , who have not only given their names , but expressed an interest in my enterprise which has assisted me in its accomplish- ment . Rev. John Pierpont , Prof. George Ticknor ...
... hope to be pardoned for mentioning some of the individuals , who have not only given their names , but expressed an interest in my enterprise which has assisted me in its accomplish- ment . Rev. John Pierpont , Prof. George Ticknor ...
Page xlv
... hope you will come and spend the rest of your life with me , and we shall often talk together of the mercies of God . If , however , you have not strength to write , beg M. Racine to do me that kind- ness , the greatest he can ever do ...
... hope you will come and spend the rest of your life with me , and we shall often talk together of the mercies of God . If , however , you have not strength to write , beg M. Racine to do me that kind- ness , the greatest he can ever do ...
Page 42
... in tones of kind regard : — Our quarrel , brother , ' s at an end ; Henceforth I hope to live your friend ; For peace now reigns Throughout the animal domains . 1 Æsop . I bear the news : -come down , I pray 42 [ BOOK IL . THE FABLES OF.
... in tones of kind regard : — Our quarrel , brother , ' s at an end ; Henceforth I hope to live your friend ; For peace now reigns Throughout the animal domains . 1 Æsop . I bear the news : -come down , I pray 42 [ BOOK IL . THE FABLES OF.
Page 59
... hope of saving one , ' Twould soothe somewhat my bitter moan . ' Thus leaving apprehensions hideous , Down went the puss perfidious To where the sow , no longer digging , Was in the very act of pigging . ' Good friend and neighbour ...
... hope of saving one , ' Twould soothe somewhat my bitter moan . ' Thus leaving apprehensions hideous , Down went the puss perfidious To where the sow , no longer digging , Was in the very act of pigging . ' Good friend and neighbour ...
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Abstemius Æsop ancient animal apologue Avianus bear beasts beneath Bidpaii bird Bohn's Book call'd charms Château-Thierry creature cried dame dare dead death doth e'en edition Elizur Wright English Engravings Esop Essays eyes fable fabulist fate fear fell Fontaine Fontaine's fool French frog give gods grace Greek hath head heart Heaven History Hitopadesa John Rabbit Jove Jupiter king La Fontaine lion lived Louis XIV Madame Madame de Sévigné matter Memoir mice Molière monkey mortal neighbour never Notes nought o'er once Phædrus poet Portrait Pray prince Prose Rabelais race replied royal sage seem'd sheep shepherd Sir Raven sire stag story sweet thee Theocritus thing thou thought took Trans Translated Translator's Preface truth Twas verse vols ween wise wolf wood Woodcuts word
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