The Fables of La FontaineG. Bell and Sons, 1888 - 356 pages |
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Page ix
... thing or two I ween ; My dear , I beg you , do not buy : Such game as this may suit the dogs . ' So on our peddling sportsman jogs , His soul possess'd of this surmise , About some men , as well as flies : A filthy taint they soonest ...
... thing or two I ween ; My dear , I beg you , do not buy : Such game as this may suit the dogs . ' So on our peddling sportsman jogs , His soul possess'd of this surmise , About some men , as well as flies : A filthy taint they soonest ...
Page xiii
... things to sing about : New scenes had brought new talents out . So , while , improved beyond a doubt , His own old song more clearly rang , Far better than themselves he sang The chants and trills of other birds ; He even mock'd ...
... things to sing about : New scenes had brought new talents out . So , while , improved beyond a doubt , His own old song more clearly rang , Far better than themselves he sang The chants and trills of other birds ; He even mock'd ...
Page xxiv
... things , in the dark ages of Europe . Abridgments took the place of the large collections , and probably occasioned the entire loss of some of them . As literature revived , fable was resuscitated . The crusades had brought European ...
... things , in the dark ages of Europe . Abridgments took the place of the large collections , and probably occasioned the entire loss of some of them . As literature revived , fable was resuscitated . The crusades had brought European ...
Page xxxiii
... thing which they did was to banish from among them all rules of conversation , and everything which savours of the academic conference . When they met , and had sufficiently discussed their amusements , if chance threw them upon any ...
... thing which they did was to banish from among them all rules of conversation , and everything which savours of the academic conference . When they met , and had sufficiently discussed their amusements , if chance threw them upon any ...
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... things were sent . Such folly liveth yet with human fools . For others lynxes , for ourselves but moles . Great blemishes in other men we spy , Which in ourselves we pass most kindly by . As in this world we're but way - farers , Kind ...
... things were sent . Such folly liveth yet with human fools . For others lynxes , for ourselves but moles . Great blemishes in other men we spy , Which in ourselves we pass most kindly by . As in this world we're but way - farers , Kind ...
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