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" THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which he beheld at some distance. "
Select Fables; with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick ... - Page 119
by Thomas Bewick - 1820 - 332 pages
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The Teacher's Assistant: Consisting of Lectures in the Catechetical Form ...

Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - Religious education - 1812 - 402 pages
...equals ? [Aits. Yes.] FABLE VIII. Tilt Crcrw and the Pitcher. A Crow, ready to die with thirst, flew to a pitcher which he beheld at some distance. When...he found water in it, but so near the bottom, that he could not reach it. Then he tried to overturn the pitcher, but he had not strength to do it. At...
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The fables of Ęsop, and others, with designs on wood, by T. Bewick

Aesopus - 1818 - 428 pages
...artifices of those whose designs are to gull and impose upon them. i"» --"" -"••"' lHIIIl l II l THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A Crow, ready to die with...some distance. When he came, he found water in it, indeed, but so near the bottom, that with all his stooping and straining, he was not able to reach...
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Select fables, from Ęsop and others

Aesopus - 1820 - 102 pages
...should give the preference to intrinsic worth, rather than to empty shew and splendour. FABLE XXXI. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with...some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom, that, with all his stooping and straining, he was not able to reach...
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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
...possess, Nor deem a rival's merit makes yours less. FABLE XCVII. (ZCrofo aito tjje [From CROXALL.] A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to...some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom, that, with all hig stooping and straining, he was not able to reach...
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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 - 366 pages
...gifts that you possess, Nor deem a rival's merit makes yours less. , ©rofo an& tfje [From CROXALL.] A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to...some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom, that, with all his stooping and straining, he was not able to reach...
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Parley's Magazine, Volume 1

Children's periodicals - 1833 - 438 pages
...wine, that they improve by age, still when occasional!) presented, they may not IKS unacceptable : A Crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which be beheld ai some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom, that,...
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Fables: Original and Selected, by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental ...

George Moir Bussey - Fables - 1842 - 608 pages
...plays so sweetly on his flute, listens to you with silent rapture." THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CBOW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher,...some distance. When he came, he found water in it, indeed, but so near the bottom, that with all his stooping and straining, he was not able to reach...
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Fables selected from Dodsley, Croxall, &c. and revised

Fables - 1846 - 98 pages
...half the quantity, and you will easily succeed." 77. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A crow, almost dying with thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher, which he...some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom, that, with all his stooping and stretching, he was not able to reach...
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Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources

Thomas James - Fables, Greek - 1848 - 290 pages
...so," said the Lamb: "it is better to be sacrificed to God, than to be devoured by you." FABLE XLVII. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. , A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which he saw at a distance. But when he came up to it, he found the Abater so low that with all his stooping...
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Fables of AEsop and Others

Aesop - Fables - 1850 - 366 pages
...them be broken by tale-bearers and whisperers, or any other contrivance of our enemies. FAB, LIII. The Crow and the Pitcher. A Crow, ready to die with...some distance. When he came, he found water in it indeed, but so near the bottom, that with all his stooping and straining, he was not able to reach...
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