"La fontaine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pronunciation, as I found all the letters and sounds described in the book. Of course this was tasking slender powers for great ends; but it gave me something to do on a rainy day, and I acquired a sufficient knowledge of French to read with pleasure La Fontaine's "Fables," "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" and ...
— Story of My Life • Helen Keller
... memoires were not written for children, they may outrage readers offended by Chaucer, La Fontaine, Rabelais and ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... Rabelais, at his pleasure. He had talents for irony, allegory, and fable, that he could adapt with great skill to the promotion of moral and political truth. He was master of that infantine simplicity which the French call naivete, which never fails to charm, in Phaedrus and La Fontaine, from ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various
... been to his taste. He was familiar with quite a large number of Latin and Greek indecent passages, knew the broader farces of the Canterbury Tales and of the Decameron, and, later, the 'contes' of La Fontaine and the Facetiae of Poggio. As Ste.-Beuve says of Gibbon, I think, he acquired an 'erudite and cold' sort of obscenity in ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... far from the chimney, which was ornamented with a crucifix of yellow copper, was a set of shelves, attached to the wall, containing three rows of books, in gray linen binding. Julien, approaching, read, not without surprise, some of the titles: Paul and Virginia, La Fontaine's Fables, Gessner's Idylls, Don Quixote, and noticed several odd ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
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