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Page xviii - Emblems of Mortality ; Representing, in upwards of Fifty Cuts, Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People ; Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland : With an Apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French.
Page 3 - The Crow, tickled with this very civil language, nestled and wriggled about, and hardly knew where she was ; but, thinking the Fox a little dubious as to the particular of her voice, and having a mind to set him right in that matter, began to sing, and, in the same instant, let the cheese drop out of her mouth.
Page 217 - The north Wind began, and blew a very cold blast, accompanied with a sharp driving shower. But this, and whatever else he could do, instead of making the man quit his cloak, obliged him to gird it about his body as close as possible.
Page 159 - HERCULES AND THE CARTER. As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the clay, that the horses could not draw them out. Upon this, he fell a bawling and praying to Hercules to come and help him.
Page 119 - THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. A CROW, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher, which he beheld at some distance.
Page 201 - ... the first that came in with him, and seized him by one of his haunches ; but his decayed and broken teeth not being able to keep their hold, the Deer escaped and threw him quite out. Upon which, his master, being in a great .passion, and going to strike him, the honest old creature is said to have barked out this apology : " Ah ! do not strike your poor old servant ; it is not my heart and inclination, but my strength and speed that fail me. If what I now am displeases, pray don't forget what...
Page 165 - ... nor could kill any man ; bearing no arms, but only his trumpet, which he was obliged to sound at the word of command.
Page 15 - KITE had been sick a long time, and finding there was no hopes of recovery, begged of his mother to go to all the churches and religious houses in the country to try what prayers and promises would effect in his behalf. The old kite replied, " Indeed, dear son, I would willingly undertake...
Page 234 - After this short discourse, each pursued his own scheme. The young Fox ate till he burst himself, and had scarcely strength to reach his hole before he died. The old one who thought it much better to deny his appetite for the present, and lay up provision for the future, returned the next day, and was killed by the farmer. Thus every age has its peculiar vice: the young suffer by their insatiable thirst after pleasure, and the old by their incorrigible and inordinate avarice.
Page 282 - Consumption, though slow, insisted that he was sure. In the midst of this contention, the Court was disturbed with the noise of music, dancing, feasting, and revelry ; when immediately entered a lady, with a bold lascivious air...