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The Original Fables Of La Fontaine Rendered Into English Prose By Fredk Colin T

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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-22

The Original Fables Of La Fontaine Rendered Into English Prose By Fredk Colin T written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-22 with categories.

The Two Mules (Book I.-No. 4)There were two heavily-laden mules making a journey together. One was carrying oats and the other bore a parcel of silver money collected from the people as a tax upon salt. This, we learn, was a tax which produced much money for the government, but it bore very hard upon the people, who revolted many times against it.The mule that carried the silver was very proud of his burden, and would not have been relieved of it if he could. As he stepped out he took care that the bells upon his harness should jingle well as became a mule of so much importance.Suddenly a band of robbers burst into the road, pounced upon the treasure mule, seized it by the bridle, and stopped it short. Struggling to defend itself the unhappy creature groaned and sighed as it cried: "Is this then the fate that has been in store for me: that I must fall and perish whilst my fellow traveller escapes free from danger?""My friend," exclaimed the mule that carried only the oats, and whom the robbers had not troubled about, "it is not always good to have exalted work to do. Had you been like me, a mere slave to a miller, you would not have been in such a bad way now!"You boasted of being so swift.II THE HARE AND THE PARTRIDGE (Book V.-No. 17)Never mock at other people's misfortune; for you cannot tell how soon you yourself may be unhappy. �sop the sage has given us one or two examples of this truth, and I am going to tell you of a similar one now.A hare and a partridge were living as fellow-citizens very peacefully in a field, when a pack of hounds making an onset obliged the hare to seek refuge. He rushed into his form and succeeded in putting the hounds at fault. But here the scent from his over-heated body betrayed him. Towler, philosophising, concluded that this scent came from his hare, and with admirable zeal routed him out. Then old Trusty, who never is at fault, proclaimed that the hare was gone away. The poor unfortunate creature at last died in his form.The partridge, his companion, thought fit to soothe his last moments with some scoffing remarks upon his fate. "You boasted of being so swift," she said "What has come to your feet, then?"But even as she was chuckling her own turn came. Secure in the belief that her wings would save her whatever happened, she did not reckon upon the cruel talons of the hawk.III THE GARDENER AND HIS LANDLORD (Book IV.-No. 4)A man who had a great fondness for gardening, being half a countryman and half town-bred, possessed in a certain village a fair-sized plot with a field attached, and all enclosed by a quickset hedge. Here sorrel and lettuce grew freely, as well as such flowers as Spanish jasmine and wild thyme, and from these his good wife Margot culled many a posy for her high days and holidays.This happy state of things was soon troubled by the visits of a hare, and to such an extent that the man had to go to his landlord and lodge a complaint. "This wretched animal," he said, "comes here and stuffs himself night and morning, and simply laughs at traps and snares....

The Original Fables Of La Fontaine

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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-25

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"The Original Fables of La Fontaine: Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney" by Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely-read French poets of the 17th century. From The Quarrel Between the Dogs and the Cats and Between the Cats and the Mice to The Man Who Ran After Fortune and the Man Who Waited for Her in His Bed, his most important and most beloved tales are gathered here.

The Original Fables Of La Fontaine

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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Original Fables of La Fontaine" (Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney) by Jean de La Fontaine. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Original Fables Of La Fontaine

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Author : Jean de la Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-02-22

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The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed the consummate art of their apparent artlessness. Keen insight into the foibles of human nature is found throughout, but in the later books ingenuity is employed to make the fable cover, yet convey, social doctrines and sympathies more democratic than the age would have tolerated in unmasked expression. Almost from the start, the Fables entered French literary consciousness to a greater degree than any other classic of its literature. For generations many of these little apologues have been read, committed to memory, recited, paraphrased, by every French school child. Countless phrases from them are current idioms, and familiarity with them is assumed.

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Author : De La Jean Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-12-01

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The Original Fables Of La Fontaine Electronic Resource

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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: eBooksLib
Release Date : 2005

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The Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science Art And Finance

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Release Date : 1914

The Saturday Review Of Politics Literature Science Art And Finance written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with Literary and political reviews categories.