 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...firft Artift, they lit prepared to laugh at the Clowa, rather than judge fairly of his performance. They both came out upon the ftage. The Mimic grunts...pretending that he concealed a little pig under his cloaths, (which in fadl he did) plucked the ear of 'the animal, iind by the pain forced him to utter... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Aesop - Fables - 1765 - 400 pages
...Clown, rather than to judge fairly of his performance. They both came out upon the ftage. The Mimick grunts away firft, is received with vaft applaufe,...Countryman (pretending that he concealed a little a little pig under his cloaths, (which in fuel he did) pinched the ear of the animal, till he made... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - Authors, Greek - 1781 - 318 pages
...to judge fairly of his performance. They both came out upon the fiage. The Mimic grunts away nrft, is received with vaft applaufe, and the loudeft acclamations....imitated the pig much more naturally ; and would have hided the Countryman off the ftage, but he produced the real pig from his bofom, and convincing them... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1809 - 316 pages
...firft artift, they fit prepared to laugh at the Clown, rather than to judge fairly of his performance. They both came": out upon the ftage. The Mimic grunts...the ear of the animal, till he made him fqueak. The peo. pie exclaimed aloud that the firft performer had imitated the pig much more naturally ; and would... | |
 | Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1800 - 338 pages
...firft artift, they fit prepared to laugh at the Clown, rather than to judge fairly of his performance. They both came out upon the ftage. The Mimic grunts...did) pinched the ear of the animal, till he made him fqtttak. The people exclaimed aloud that the firft performer had imitated the pig much more naturally... | |
 | George Moir Bussey - Fables - 1842 - 608 pages
...came out upon the stage. The mimic grunted away first, was received with vast applause and the loudest acclamations. Then the countryman, pretending that...did, pinched the ear of the animal, till he made him squeak. The people exclaimed aloud that the first performer had imitated the pig much more naturally,... | |
 | Thomas James - Fables, Greek - 1848 - 290 pages
...upon the stage. The Mountebank grunts away first, and calls forth the greatest clapping and applause. Then the Countryman, pretending that he concealed a little pig under his garments (and he had, in fact, really got one) pinched its ear till he made it squeak. The people cried... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...upon the stage. The mountebank grunts away first, and calls forth the greatest clapping and applause. Then the countryman, pretending that he concealed a little pig under his garments (and he had, in fact, really got one) pinched its ear till he made it squeak. The people cried... | |
 | Aesopus - 1852 - 210 pages
...upon the stage. The Mountebank grunts away first, and calls forth the greatest clapping and applause. Then the Countryman, pretending that he concealed a little pig under his garments (and he had, in fact, really got one) pinched its ear till he made it squeak. The people cried... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - Children - 1921 - 718 pages
...the stage. The Mountebank grunts away at first, and calls forth the greatest clapping and applause. Then the Countryman, pretending that he concealed a little pig under his garments (and he had, in fact, really got one) pinched its ear till he made it squeak. The people cried... | |
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Mountebank grunts away first, and calls forth the greatest clapping and applause. Then the Countryman, pretending that he concealed a little pig under his garments (and he had, in fact, really got one) pinched its ear till he made it squeak. The people... 
