The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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Page xvii
... reason . The skies it peopled with beings , on the noblest model of which it could have any conception - to wit , its own . The intercourse of these beings , thus created and endowed , — from the deity kindled into immortality by the ...
... reason . The skies it peopled with beings , on the noblest model of which it could have any conception - to wit , its own . The intercourse of these beings , thus created and endowed , — from the deity kindled into immortality by the ...
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... reasons : " in order to testify to the author the esteem we have for his person and his merit , and because youth have received great advantage in their education from the fables selected and put in verse , which he has heretofore ...
... reasons : " in order to testify to the author the esteem we have for his person and his merit , and because youth have received great advantage in their education from the fables selected and put in verse , which he has heretofore ...
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... reasons always yield To reasons of the strongest . A lamb her thirst was slaking , Once , at a mountain rill . A hungry wolf was taking His hunt for sheep to kill , When , spying on the streamlet's brink This sheep of tender age , He ...
... reasons always yield To reasons of the strongest . A lamb her thirst was slaking , Once , at a mountain rill . A hungry wolf was taking His hunt for sheep to kill , When , spying on the streamlet's brink This sheep of tender age , He ...
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... a lie ? Why , ma'am , I am a bird ; And , if you doubt my word , Just see the wings with which I fly . Long live the mice that cleave the sky ! ' Æsop . These reasons had so fair a show , The weasel BOOK II . ] 31 LA FONTAINE .
... a lie ? Why , ma'am , I am a bird ; And , if you doubt my word , Just see the wings with which I fly . Long live the mice that cleave the sky ! ' Æsop . These reasons had so fair a show , The weasel BOOK II . ] 31 LA FONTAINE .
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Jean de La Fontaine J. W. M. Gibbs. These reasons had so fair a show , The weasel let the creature go . By some strange fancy led , The same wise blunderhead , But two or three days later , Had chosen for her rest Another weasel's nest ...
Jean de La Fontaine J. W. M. Gibbs. These reasons had so fair a show , The weasel let the creature go . By some strange fancy led , The same wise blunderhead , But two or three days later , Had chosen for her rest Another weasel's nest ...
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