Quotes And Images From the Tales And Novels of Jean De La Fontaine
Quotes And Images From the Tales And Novels of Jean De La Fontaine
La Fontaine Jean De
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Nothing was more easy, but it would have weakened the tale andtaken away some of its charm: So much circumspection is only necessaryin works which promise great discretion from the beginning, either bytheir subject or by the manner in which they are treated. I confessthat it is necessary to keep within certain limits, and that thenarrowest are the best; also it must be allowed me that to be tooscrupulous would spoil all. He who would wish to reduce Boccaccio tothe same modesty as Virgil, would ...assuredly produce nothing worthhaving, and would sin against the laws of propriety by setting himselfthe task to observe them. For in order that one may not make a mistakein matters of verse and prose, extreme modesty and propriety are twovery different things. Cicero makes the latter consist in saying whatis appropriate one should say, considering the place, the time, and thepersons to whom one is speaking. This principle once admitted, it isnot a fault of judgment to entertain the people of to-day with Taleswhich are a little broad.
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