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Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances
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Ancient Era, Myths & Fairy Tales
21 Chapters
Excerpt from Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances:
...from Phaedrus, and retains a flavour of artificiality; Numbers XIII. and XX. are from Latin versions; and Number X. is from a French one.
The Translations aim at replacing the florid style of our older English versions, and the stilted harshness of more modern ones, by a plainness and terseness more nearly like the character of the originals.
In the following cases the Translations have been adapted to the Designs. In Number I. cheese has been put for meat; in...
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