Excerpt from Fables and Satires, Vol. 1: With a Preface on the Esopean Fable
The reputation of the Esopean fable has been so long established, that an attempt to present it in a less ungracious form than it has hitherto assumed in English, requires no apology. The worse than mediocrity of the collection of Esop's fables in our language has encouraged, with much diffidence, the publication of the following volumes.
As the learned, however, have differed much, on various circumstances relating to this species of composition, I have here put together, by way of preface, such of their notices and observations as have appealed to me most worthy of attention.
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