Excerpt from The Works of Solomon Gessner, Vol. 1 of 3: Translated From the German, With Some Account of His Life and Writings
Other writings are characterized. At this period of his life, Ovid seems to have been a favourite with Gessner. In his Night, we have a fable on the origin of the glow-worm; and in his Daphnis, an. Episode on the amours of a water-god and.
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