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... LA FONTAINE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ELIZUR WRIGHT . A NEW Edition , WITH NOTES BY J. W. M. GIBBS . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1888 . CHISWICK PRESS : -C . WHITTINGHAM AND CO . , BY ...
... LA FONTAINE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ELIZUR WRIGHT . A NEW Edition , WITH NOTES BY J. W. M. GIBBS . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 1888 . CHISWICK PRESS : -C . WHITTINGHAM AND CO . , BY ...
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... notes too , have , for the most part , been added by the reviser . Some account of the translator , who is still one of the living notables of his nation , may not be out of place here . Elizur Wright , junior , is the son of Elizur ...
... notes too , have , for the most part , been added by the reviser . Some account of the translator , who is still one of the living notables of his nation , may not be out of place here . Elizur Wright , junior , is the son of Elizur ...
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... notes on almost every page , and these notes are the maxims which are to be found in his fables . Returning from this study of the ancients , he read the moderns with more discrimination . His favourites , besides Malherbe , were ...
... notes on almost every page , and these notes are the maxims which are to be found in his fables . Returning from this study of the ancients , he read the moderns with more discrimination . His favourites , besides Malherbe , were ...
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... Once undertook , in poem lyric , To write a wrestler's panegyric ; Æsop . ' Malherbe . - See note to Fable I. , Book III . it . 2 Phædrus , IV . 24 . Which , ere he had proceeded far in , He BOOK 1. ] 15 LA FONTAINE .
... Once undertook , in poem lyric , To write a wrestler's panegyric ; Æsop . ' Malherbe . - See note to Fable I. , Book III . it . 2 Phædrus , IV . 24 . Which , ere he had proceeded far in , He BOOK 1. ] 15 LA FONTAINE .
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... note In Rome , Mæcenas , 2 somewhere wrote : — " Make me the poorest wretch that begs , Sore , hungry , crippled , clothed in rags , In hopeless impotence of arms and legs ; Provided , after all , you give The one sweet liberty to live ...
... note In Rome , Mæcenas , 2 somewhere wrote : — " Make me the poorest wretch that begs , Sore , hungry , crippled , clothed in rags , In hopeless impotence of arms and legs ; Provided , after all , you give The one sweet liberty to live ...
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