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Identifier: fablesoflafont00lafo (find matches)
Title: The fables of La Fontaine
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Subjects: Fables, French Fables, Greek
Publisher: London, Ingram, Cooke, and co.
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The Dairy Woman. LONDONi INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO. 227, STRAND. 1853. \ \ \ S>\\> ^ ^v ^ >V Gift.W. L. Shoemaker7 S 06 THE FABLES ©F LA FONTAINE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, By ELIZUR WRIGHT, June. VOL. I. 119 INTKODTJCTION. This elegant translation of the most famous fabulist of modern times (if we may-be allowed to call tbe seventeenth century modern), is the work of an Americanauthor, who has admirably succeeded in embodying both the spirit, the grace, andthe vivacity of the original in the translation. As Fables have interested and instructed mankind in every age, and as the Fablesof La Fontaine may be said to be the standard collection of modern times, thistranslation has been considered as a most appropriate addition to the UniversalLibrary. London, February, 1853.- 120 A PREFACE ON FABLE, THE FABULISTS, AND LA FONTAINE, BY THE TRANSLATOR. Human nature, when fresh from the hand of God,was full of poetry. Its sociality could not be pentwithin the bounds of the actual. To th

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookauthor:Wright__Elizur__1804_1885
  • booksubject:Fables__French
  • booksubject:Fables__Greek
  • bookpublisher:London__Ingram__Cooke__and_co_
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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