Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men

ISBN: 9781331087915 出版年：2016 页码：311 Joseph Spence Forgotten Books

After my reading the Persian Tales (and I had been reading Dryden's Fables just before them) I had some thoughts of writ ing a Persian Fable; in which I should have given full loose to description and imagination. It would have been a very wild thing, if I had executed it, but might not have been entertaining — The same.