Fifty Fables of La FontaineFifty of La Fontaine's verse fables in the original French are found side by side with their English translations. |
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... Fontaine's rendition of Aesop's celebrated fox . The Ape and the Dolphin 1. La Fontaine's comment reflects the high esteem in which the literati of the Western world held Pliny the Elder's first - century Historia naturalis , from the ...
... Fontaine's rendition of Aesop's celebrated fox . The Ape and the Dolphin 1. La Fontaine's comment reflects the high esteem in which the literati of the Western world held Pliny the Elder's first - century Historia naturalis , from the ...
Page 116
... Fontaine's amours , especially from the time of his marriage on , have been sympathetically chronicled by twentieth - century fabulist Franc - Nohain [ pseudonym of Maurice Legrand ] , in La Vie amoureuse de Jean de La Fontaine [ Paris ...
... Fontaine's amours , especially from the time of his marriage on , have been sympathetically chronicled by twentieth - century fabulist Franc - Nohain [ pseudonym of Maurice Legrand ] , in La Vie amoureuse de Jean de La Fontaine [ Paris ...
Page 117
Jean de La Fontaine. discipline was clearly at odds with La Fontaine's easygoing and almost libertine life - style ; an antagonism expressed in works like his " Ballade sur Escobar " ( 1664 ) , in which he explicitly criticizes the ...
Jean de La Fontaine. discipline was clearly at odds with La Fontaine's easygoing and almost libertine life - style ; an antagonism expressed in works like his " Ballade sur Escobar " ( 1664 ) , in which he explicitly criticizes the ...
Contents
LA GRENOUILLE QUI SE VEUT FAIRE | 6 |
LE LOUP ET LAGNEAU | 11 |
The Oak and the Reed | 11 |
Copyright | |
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