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Fables Ancient and Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer, With Original Poems
Fables Ancient and Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer Ovid Boccace and Chaucer With Original Poems Author:John Dryden 1700. In these ancient and modern fables from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer, Mr. Dryden has written nothing which favors of immorality or profaneness, at least he was not conscious to his self of any such intention. He endeavored to choose such fables as contain in each of them some instructive moral, which leap foremost into sight. Due to th... more »e age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.« less