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Definition of La fontaine
1. Noun. French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695).
Lexicographical Neighbors of La Fontaine
Literary usage of La fontaine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It may only be said that satire (and la fontaine is eminently a satirist) ...
Exception has • passed upon la fontaine's Fables is that of Silvestre de Sacy^ ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"But it is not by his wit alone that la fontaine exerts so powerful an influence
... Though verse seems to be the natural language of a poet, yet la fontaine ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The curious personality of la fontaine has given rise .to many stories concerning
his life and habits. The candor and simplicity of his character acquired ..."
4. A Short History of French Literature: (from the Earliest Texts to the Close by George Saintsbury (1901)
"The spirit of the Fabliaux had been dead, or at any rate dormant, since Marot
and Rabelais; la fontaine revived it- Even purists, like his friend Boileau, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The next year Colbert died and la fontaine was again nominated. Boileau was abo
a candidate, but the first ballot gave the fabulist sixteen votes against ..."
6. Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern by Walter Savage Landor, Graeme Mercer Adam (1901)
"la fontaine. I never go to court. They say one cannot go without silk ...
la fontaine. I thought so too, and grew the warmer at being unable to find a wisp ..."
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