His fables were of course delivered orally , and frequently repeated . Being
striking in point , and easy of remembrance , his stories were soon bandied about
from mouth to mouth , and handed down from generation to generation , with
such ...
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Fables . Fable I . The Iguana and the Dog . ? ) There was once an Iguana and a
Dog . The Iguana was in the bush close to the town ; the Dog was in the town .
The Iguana was always hearing the voice of the Dog in the town , he heard that ...
Author: Christian Friedrich Schlenker
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Category: Folklore, Temne
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KRILOFF'S FABLES . The classification of the fables already given will enable me
to shorten my remarks on this part of my subject , and I am the more glad to do so
, because any lengthened criticism of an author by his translator is apt to ...
Author: Ivan Andreevich Krylov
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V The Fable of the Michigan Counterfeit Who Wasn't One Thing or the Other . 91
The Fable of the Adult Girl Who Got Busy Before They Could Ring the Bell on Her
103 The Fable of the Man - Grabber Who Went Out of His Class · 117 The ...
Author: George Ade
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Category: American wit and humor
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These were not used by the ancients , who made the precepts they wished to
teach in their Fables , spring from the Fables themselves , The separate moral is
a modern invention . Phædrus , indeed , usually began his apologues with some
...
Author: George Moir Bussey
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Lessing was sufficiently conceited to imagine that most of his predecessors in
fable - writing had more or less failed in their work ; in fact , he indicated with
tolerable plainness that , in his own opinion at least , he alone could write fables
as ...
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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be adduced in favour of the existence of Æsop , and of his claims to the gratitude
of posterity as the writer of fable . Something must be said on the subjective side
of the question , and on the internal evidences afforded by the fables themselves
...
Author: Aesop
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Page FABLE I. Introductory . The Power of Fables 1 FABLE II . The Old Mouse
and the Young Mouse . The necessity in Youth of attending to Parental Advice 4
FABLE III . The Crow and the Pitcher . Difficulties conquered by Perseverance .
Author: Mary Anne DAVIS
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The first series of Gay's Fables was published in 1727 . The title - page , which
bears a vignette of a mask , runs as follows :* Fables . I by Mr Gay | London : 1
printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts | MDccxxvii . In immediate sequence to the title
...
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FABLE VI . Page 184 A religious Doctor and a Dervise FABLE VII . 190 The
Merchant's Wife and the Painter FABLE VIII . Three envious Persons that found
Money ! 194 FABLE IX . The ignorant Physician . 201 FABLE X. The virtuous
Woman ...
Author: Bidpai Pilpay
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31 FABLE II . The King and his Two Sons . . . . . . Fable III . The Dervise , the
Falcon , and the Raven . . Fable IV . The Countryman and several Rats . . . FABLE
V . The Carpenter and the Ape . . . . Fable VI . The two Travellers , and the Lion ...
Author: Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī
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1 ) ' Tis an easie matter to find what Fables these pieces relate to ; and I think they
are all extant in the present Collection . V . This , you see by this Specimen , was
no con - . temptible Author : and after him came one Babrius , that gave a new ...
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category: Aesop's fables
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And , firstly , for the first count : we have not distributed these fables into five
distinct Books , according to the arrangement of our author , who produced the
several parts at different intervals of time . This formal discrepancy will scarcely
require ...
Author: Phaedrus
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Ivan Andreevich Krylov, William Ralston Shedden Ralston. PREFACE . 1x they
have been stripped of their ornaments and clothed in an unaccustomed and
prosaic garb . Most of the translators of these fables have tried to turn them into
verse .
Author: Ivan Andreevich Krylov
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Category: Fables
Page: 268
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excellence of the Fables it contains , but for the applications attached to them ,
which form , indeed , nearly half the bulk of his volume . The materials proper to
be used for the purposes of Fable have been already spoken of . We will
conclude ...
Author: George Moir Bussey
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Le chat en question y était fort connu ; il assistait sans doute à la solennité dans
laquelle l'auteur a lu cette fable . FABLE IX . ( 7 ) Dans ce temps où l'on oublie si
vite les services rendus et les hommes d'élite qui s'éteignent , il m'est doux de ...
Author: CHARLES PORPHYRE ALEXANDRE. DESAINS
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