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" I am frightened almost to death ! I have seen the most extraordinary creature that ever was. He has a fierce, angry look, and struts about upon two legs ; a strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood : he... "
Select Fables of Ęsop and Other Fabulists: In Three Books by R. Dodsley - Page 107
by Aesop, Robert Dodsley - 1800 - 228 pages
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The complete fabulist: or, A choice collection of moral and entertaining ...

Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...a deadly poifon. xc. The CAT, the COCK, and the Ttung MOUSE. A Young Moufe, who had feen very Iktle of the world, came running one day to his mother in...wide, that I thought he was preparing to fwallow me "Pi then he roared at me fo horribly, that I trembled every joint, and was glad to run home as faft...
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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books

Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1805 - 260 pages
...that ever was. He has a fierce, angry look, and ftruts about upon two legs: a ftrangc piece of flcfh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as...flapped his arms againft his fides, as if he intended to rile into the air; and ftretching out his head, he opened a fharp-pointed mouth fo wide, that I thought...
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Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists: In Three Books

Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1809 - 316 pages
...he ordered his entrails for facrifke, and the reft of the Beafts went to dinner upon his carcafe. US FABLE XXXI. The Cat, the Cock, and the young Moufe....wide, that I thought he was preparing to fwallow me up : ther he roared at me fo horribly, that I trembled every joint, and wa.s glad to run home as faft...
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Select fables, from Ęsop and others

Aesopus - 1820 - 102 pages
...that ever was. He has a fierce, angry, look, and struts about upon two legs ; a strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood: he flapped his arms against his sides, as if he intended to rise into the air, and, stretching out h's head, he opened...
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Flowers of Fable: Culled from Epictetus, Croxall, Dodsley, Gay, Cowper, Pope ...

Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - Animals - 1832 - 388 pages
...that ever was. He has a fierce, angry look, and struts about upon two legs ; a strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood : he flapped his arms against his sides, as if he intended to rise into the air ; and stretching out his head, he opened...
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Fables: Original and Selected, by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental ...

George Moir Bussey - Fables - 1842 - 608 pages
...extraordinary creature. He has a fierce angry look, and struts about upon two legs. A strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood. He flapped his arms against his sides, as if he intended to rise into the air ; and stretching out his head, he opened...
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Fables selected from Dodsley, Croxall, &c. and revised

Fables - 1846 - 98 pages
...creature that ever was. He has a fierce look, and struts about upon two legs , a strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood : he flapped his arms against his sides, as if he intended to rise into the air; and stretching out his head, he opened a...
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Favourite Fables, in Prose and Verse

Favourite fables - 1870 - 288 pages
...that ever was. He has a fierce, angry look, and struts about on two legs ; a strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood: he flapped his arms against his sides, as if he intended to rise into the air ; and stretching out his L.-.. THE FOX AND...
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