The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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... light of Asiatic poetry . The poets of that age were not confined , however , to fables from the Hindoo source . Marie de France , also , in the thirteenth century , versified one hundred of the fables of Æsop , translating from an ...
... light of Asiatic poetry . The poets of that age were not confined , however , to fables from the Hindoo source . Marie de France , also , in the thirteenth century , versified one hundred of the fables of Æsop , translating from an ...
Page xxviii
... light of one of his virtues . His frankness would never allow concealment . He scandalized his friends Boileau and Racine ; still , it is matter of doubt whether they did not excel him rather in prudence than in purity . But , whatever ...
... light of one of his virtues . His frankness would never allow concealment . He scandalized his friends Boileau and Racine ; still , it is matter of doubt whether they did not excel him rather in prudence than in purity . But , whatever ...
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... Light work indeed , ' Replies the dog ; ' you only need 1 Phædrus , III . 7. — The references to the Fables of Phædrus are to Bohn's edition , which is from the critical edition of Orellius , 1831 . To bark a little now and then , To ...
... Light work indeed , ' Replies the dog ; ' you only need 1 Phædrus , III . 7. — The references to the Fables of Phædrus are to Bohn's edition , which is from the critical edition of Orellius , 1831 . To bark a little now and then , To ...
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... light , Whose single head avails To lead a hundred tails : And , seized with juster fright , I saw him pass the hedge , - Head , body , tails , a wedge Of living and resistless powers.- The other was your emperor's force ; this ours ...
... light , Whose single head avails To lead a hundred tails : And , seized with juster fright , I saw him pass the hedge , - Head , body , tails , a wedge Of living and resistless powers.- The other was your emperor's force ; this ours ...
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... d head . Each aiming to assimilate Her lover to her own estate , The older piecemeal stole The black hair from his poll , 1 Phædrus , II . 2 : Æsop . While eke , with fingers light , The young one BOOK I. ] 19 LA FONTAINE .
... d head . Each aiming to assimilate Her lover to her own estate , The older piecemeal stole The black hair from his poll , 1 Phædrus , II . 2 : Æsop . While eke , with fingers light , The young one BOOK I. ] 19 LA FONTAINE .
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