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Page xxxii
... wise . Idmon was an inhabitant of the island of Samos . During Ęsop's servitude with this master , he had a fellow - servant called Rhodopis , who some affirm was his wife . * This does not at all appear credible , for there is no ...
... wise . Idmon was an inhabitant of the island of Samos . During Ęsop's servitude with this master , he had a fellow - servant called Rhodopis , who some affirm was his wife . * This does not at all appear credible , for there is no ...
Page xxxiii
... wise men his vast riches and magnificence , and the glory and splendour of his court , asked them the question , whom they thought the happiest man . After seve- ral different answers given by all the wise men pre- sent , it came at ...
... wise men his vast riches and magnificence , and the glory and splendour of his court , asked them the question , whom they thought the happiest man . After seve- ral different answers given by all the wise men pre- sent , it came at ...
Page xxxiv
... Chilo , one of the wise men , What God was doing ? He replied , with great adroitness , That he was hum- bling the proud and exalting the humble . He had just views of human nature , and assigned true reasons for xxxiv LIFE OF ĘSOP .
... Chilo , one of the wise men , What God was doing ? He replied , with great adroitness , That he was hum- bling the proud and exalting the humble . He had just views of human nature , and assigned true reasons for xxxiv LIFE OF ĘSOP .
Page xxxvii
... wise it will be liable to admit of different interpre- tations , and be the same as a riddle , and have no effect . Clearness , Unity , and Probability , are inci- dents essentially necessary in a moral Fable . If a ESSAY UPON FABLE ...
... wise it will be liable to admit of different interpre- tations , and be the same as a riddle , and have no effect . Clearness , Unity , and Probability , are inci- dents essentially necessary in a moral Fable . If a ESSAY UPON FABLE ...
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... wise conceit , he dressed himself with a sufficient quantity of their most beautiful feathers , and in this borrowed garb , forsaking his old com- panions , endeavoured to pass for a Peacock ; but he no sooner attempted to associate ...
... wise conceit , he dressed himself with a sufficient quantity of their most beautiful feathers , and in this borrowed garb , forsaking his old com- panions , endeavoured to pass for a Peacock ; but he no sooner attempted to associate ...
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Ęsop appear bad company bear beasts beauty bird bliss boast Bramble Butterfly Cock Columbo creature Croesus Crow cuts danger death Eagle edition endeavour engraved envy Esop ev'ry evil eyes FABLE XXIV Fabulist fate fear fell folly fool fortune Frogs give Goody Two Shoes happened happy heart Heav'n honest honour humble Idmon King Kite labour Lion live mankind manner master mind mischief MORALS Mouse nature neighbour never o'er Oliver Goldsmith once pain peace Pepper-Box Periander Philostratus pleasure poor pow'r pray present pretend prey pride Quadrupeds reason REFLECTION replied rest Reynard Saint says scarce Select Fables sense shew Sir Roger L'Estrange soon sure tell thee thing Thomas Bewick thou thought Tis green tree true truth Tyger virtue wings wise Wolf wood wretch young
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Page xxxvi - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Page 249 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 222 - ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking ; We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things, which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us, for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 247 - And what a length of tail behind! How slow its pace! And then its hue, — Who ever saw so fine a blue?
Page 251 - So soon, d'ye call it !' Death replies. ' Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ; Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore.
Page 246 - OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been To see whatever could be seen.
Page xxvii - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man; And wiser he whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 247 - I've seen it, sir, as well as you, And must again affirm it blue; At leisure I the beast surveyed Extended in the cooling shade.
Page xxxvi - ... pictoribus atque poetis quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.» 10 scimus, et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim; sed non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni. Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis...
Page 248 - I'll eat him." He said : then full before their sight Produced the beast, and lo! — 'twas white. Both stared, the man looked wondrous wise — "My children," the chameleon cries, (Then first the creature found a tongue), "You all are right, and all are wrong: When next you talk of what you view, Think others see as well as you: Nor wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own.