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Page 38
... great play . In the same way the great French fable - writer , La Fontaine , was content to take the age - old fables of Æsop , Phædrus , and others , and by the magic of his genius change them into those enchanting poems which are ...
... great play . In the same way the great French fable - writer , La Fontaine , was content to take the age - old fables of Æsop , Phædrus , and others , and by the magic of his genius change them into those enchanting poems which are ...
Page 138
... great skill as a versifier and he now began to use his gifts in the composition of witty satires on various public figures of the period . At last , however , the young poet overstepped the mark . A scurrilous lampoon on the Regent ...
... great skill as a versifier and he now began to use his gifts in the composition of witty satires on various public figures of the period . At last , however , the young poet overstepped the mark . A scurrilous lampoon on the Regent ...
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... great dramatist . He wrote other plays : Le Roi s'amuse ( 1832 ) , which was pro- hibited after the first performance on political grounds ; Ruy Blas in 1838 ; and in 1843 his last play , Les Burgraves , which was such a complete ...
... great dramatist . He wrote other plays : Le Roi s'amuse ( 1832 ) , which was pro- hibited after the first performance on political grounds ; Ruy Blas in 1838 ; and in 1843 his last play , Les Burgraves , which was such a complete ...
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