Chips from a German Workshop
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781151967480
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, ON FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1870. 'r OUNT not your chickens before they be hatched, ' is a well-known proverb in English, and most people, if asked what was its origin, would probably appeal to La Fontaine's delightful fable, La Laitiere et le Pot au Lait1. We all know Perrette, lightly stepping along from her village to the town, carrying the milk-pail on her head, and in her day-dreams selling her milk for a good sum, then buying a hundred eggs, then selling the chickens, then buying a pig, fattening it, selling it again, and buying a cow with a calf. The calf frolics about, and kicks up his legs--so does Perrette, and, alas the pail falls down, the milk is spilt, her riches gone, and she only hopes when she comes home that she may escape a flogging from her husband. Did La Fontaine invent this fable? or did he merely follow the example of Sokrates, who, as we 1 La Fontaine, 'Fables, ' livre vii. fable 10. VOL. rv. L, know from the Phaedon occupied himself in prison, during the last days of his life, with turning into verse some of the fables, or, as he calls them, the myths of Aesop. La Fontaine published the first six books of his fables in 16682, and it is well known that the subjects of most of these early fables were taken from Aesop, Phaedrus, Horace, and other classical fabulists, if we may adopt this word 'fabuliste, ' which La Fontaine was the first to introduce into French. In 1678 a second edition of these six books was published, enriched by five books of new fables, and in 1694 a new edition appeared, containing one additional book, thus completing the collection of his charming poems. The fable of Perrette stands in the seventh book, and was published, therefore, for the first time in the edition of 1678....
| ISBN-13 | 9781151967480 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151967483 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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