Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and Others: In Three Parts to which are Prefixed The Life of Æsop, and An Essay Upon Fable |
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... never die . Begotten by some giant mind - pervaded by a vital and imperishable germ - the inspiration of inborn genius - they live on from age to age , enriching the generations of all time . They appeal to some universal instinct ...
... never die . Begotten by some giant mind - pervaded by a vital and imperishable germ - the inspiration of inborn genius - they live on from age to age , enriching the generations of all time . They appeal to some universal instinct ...
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... never employed his great wisdom to serve the purposes of cunning ; but , with an uncommon exact- ness , made his understanding a servant to truth . Historians have given many instances of his wit and shrewdness , which were always ...
... never employed his great wisdom to serve the purposes of cunning ; but , with an uncommon exact- ness , made his understanding a servant to truth . Historians have given many instances of his wit and shrewdness , which were always ...
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... never be rendered a probable object of belief . The incidents in a Fable ought also to be few , lest by crowding circumstances too close , the whole appear confused , and perplex the mind . The next thing to be considered in Fable is ...
... never be rendered a probable object of belief . The incidents in a Fable ought also to be few , lest by crowding circumstances too close , the whole appear confused , and perplex the mind . The next thing to be considered in Fable is ...
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... never at a loss for houses while the woods remain . This is the season when we lay up our store , and it serves us in summer till winter return . We are accustomed to endure the cold , and our exercise keeps us from feeling it to excess ...
... never at a loss for houses while the woods remain . This is the season when we lay up our store , and it serves us in summer till winter return . We are accustomed to endure the cold , and our exercise keeps us from feeling it to excess ...
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... never to be retrieved . Our term of life does not allow time for long protracted deliberations . WOW many live in the world as useless as if they How had never been born ! They pass through life like a bird through the air , and leave ...
... never to be retrieved . Our term of life does not allow time for long protracted deliberations . WOW many live in the world as useless as if they How had never been born ! They pass through life like a bird through the air , and leave ...
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Æsop appear bad company bear beasts beauty bird bliss boast Bramble Butterfly Cock Columbo creature Croesus Crow cuts danger death Eagle edition endeavour engraved envy ev'ry evil eyes FABLE XXX Fabulist fate fear fell folly fool fortune Frogs give Goody Two Shoes happened happy heart Heav'n honest honour humble Idmon Jupiter King Kite 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 prayers 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 253 - 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 252 - 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.
Page 251 - And what a length of tail behind! How slow its pace! And then its hue, — Who ever saw so fine a blue?
Page xxix - 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 250 - 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 193 - ... 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. Hercules looking down from a cloud, bid him not lie there, like an idle rascal as he was, but get up and whip his horses stoutly, and clap his shoulder to the wheel, adding, That this was the only way for him to obtain his assistance.
Page 256 - that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable : Your years have run to a great length ; I wish you joy, though, of your strength !" "Hold!" says the farmer; "not so fast! I have been lame these four years past.
Page 251 - 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 xxxviii - ... 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 256 - And no great wonder, Death replies; However, you still keep your eyes, And sure to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends. Perhaps...