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HEINT EVANS FABLE VI . THE FIDDLER IN THE RAIN . The shades of evening
were about to close on a dull , cold , rainy day in November . Lamps began to be
kindled , and glared redly through the mist . Blazing fires in kitchen , parlor , and ...
Author: William Arthur Brown Lunn
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If we do not err in our estimate of them , the Literary Fables of Don Thomas De
Yriarte are well worthy of perusal . They are aptly and ingeniously adapted to the
truths they seek to inculcate ; and they are remarkable for a terse simplicity of
form ...
Author: Tomás de Iriarte
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GAY ' S FABLES . PAGE PAGB THE LIFE OF JOHN GAY , . 149 Part I . - -
continued . Gay ' s FABLES :Fable XXI . — The Rat - catcher and Cats , . . . . 196
INTRODUCTION . — Part I . Fable XXII . - The Goat without The Shepherd and ...
Author: Joseph Addison
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In the thirteenth century Marie de France, who resided in Marie de France»
England, composed a selection of Fables in the Langue Romaine or Old French,
which she said she had translated from some English Fables ; and in the
fourteenth ...
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
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T. James , f the latest editor of these fables , " we have , in the main , both the
spirit and the body of Æsop's fables , if not as they pro· ceeded from the sage's
own lips , at least as they were known in the best times of ancient Greek literature
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Author: Aesop
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Category: Aesop's fables
Page: 264
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Containing Aesop's Fables, Complete Aesop. EDITOR'S PREFACE . That of
Phædrus is written in Latin , and dates from the commencement of the Christian
era , or about 560 years after Æsop's death . That of Babrius is in Greek , and its
date ...
Author: Aesop
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Category: Fables
Page: 249
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From all these various sources the bulk of the existing Fables is derived . This will
account for the variety of versions , sometimes as many as six or seven , of the
same Fable ; while the late dialect of the Greek text , and the occasional obvious
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Page: 148
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The other book of importance belonging to this period is the “ Select Fables , ”
published by Saint in 1784. Its full title is “ Select Fables , in Three Parts . Part I.
Fables extracted from Dodsley's . Part II . Fables with Reflections , in Prose and ...
Author: Austin Dobson
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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
Page: 298
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F it be asked whether a book of Fables ought to find a place among the
publications of a Society pledged to put forth nothing but what may in some way
conduce to the spread of the Gospel , let the question be met with another , “
What is the ...
Author: Sophie Amelia Prosser
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Category: Fables, English
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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
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Author: George Moir Bussey
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Category: Fables
Page: 352
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Those fables that show internal evidence of not having been written by him may
be explained as interpolations of a later time . Certain it is that by the close of the
fifth century before Christ , Aesop was firmly established as the patron saint of ...
Author: Phaedrus
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Page: 68
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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
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Author: Aesop
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Category: Fables
Page: 264
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TO E. L. , WITH FABLES VII . AND VIII . FAIR soul , that o'er mine own dost shine
So fair , so far above ; Dear heart , that hast so close to mine The home of thy true
love : Be thine these songs of Far and Near ! Two worlds their sources are ...
Author: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton
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From all these various sources the bulk of the existing Fables is derived . This will
account for the variety of versions , sometimes as many as six or seven , of the
same Fable ; while the late dialect of the Greek text , and the occasional obvious
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Author: Aesop
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Page: 148
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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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Most of the translators of these fables have tried to turn them into verse . * I have
not ventured to attempt a similar task , but have confined my efforts to the
production of what I hope is a faithful prose rendering of Krilof's poetry . The
version may ...
Author: Ivan Andreevich KRUILOV
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