The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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Page vi
... 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 , however , still ...
... 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 , however , still ...
Page vii
... published by Fournier Ainé . The book was well received both in America and England , and four other editions were speedily called for . The sixth edition , published in 1843 , was a slightly expurgated one , designed for schools . The ...
... published by Fournier Ainé . The book was well received both in America and England , and four other editions were speedily called for . The sixth edition , published in 1843 , was a slightly expurgated one , designed for schools . The ...
Page xiii
... published " Latter Day Pamphlets . " Later on , slavery having been at length abolished , he appeared as a writer in yet another field , publishing several works , one as lately as 1877 , on life - assurance . LONDON , 1891 . Fontine ...
... published " Latter Day Pamphlets . " Later on , slavery having been at length abolished , he appeared as a writer in yet another field , publishing several works , one as lately as 1877 , on life - assurance . LONDON , 1891 . Fontine ...
Page xv
... publish this work with so great advantages , and without selling the copyright for the promise of a song , I return my heartfelt thanks . A hatchet- faced , spectacled , threadbare stranger knocked at your doors , with a prospectus ...
... publish this work with so great advantages , and without selling the copyright for the promise of a song , I return my heartfelt thanks . A hatchet- faced , spectacled , threadbare stranger knocked at your doors , with a prospectus ...
Page xxxi
... published his first work , a translation of the Eunuch of Terence . It met with no success . But this does not seem at all to have disturbed its author . cultivated verse - making with as much ardour and good- humour as ever ; and his ...
... published his first work , a translation of the Eunuch of Terence . It met with no success . But this does not seem at all to have disturbed its author . cultivated verse - making with as much ardour and good- humour as ever ; and his ...
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