Æsop's fables. [110 fables, tr. by S. Croxall].1861 |
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able Æsop agreeable APPLICATION asked Athens bad company bear beast beauty behaviour better Birds Cock consider courage Crane creature Crow CUPID AND DEATH death Delphos Eagle easy endeavour enemy envious Esop esteem Euripides fable favour fear fellow forbear fortune Frog give guilty happened happy heart honest honour Horse idle innocent intended Jackdaw Jupiter kind king Kite Lamb least liberty Lion live look Lysippus mankind manner matter mind Mischievous Dog Mouse Nabonassar nature never observed occasion ourselves passion Peacock person Phædrus Phrygia piece Pigeons Pisistratus Plutarch poor pretend proper reason replies resolved revenge Reynard ridiculous Ringdove says scarce secure sense Sheep silly skin Stag Stork suffer sure temper thing thought took Tortoise true virtue wheel of fortune whole Wolf wretch young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite vi - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Seite 116 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Seite x - Be that as it may,' replied the Wolf, 'it was but a year ago that you called me many ill names.' 'Oh, Sir!' said the Lamb, trembling, 'a year ago I was not born.' 'Well,' replied the Wolf, 'if it was not you, it was your father, and that is all the same; but it is no use trying to argue me out of my supper;' and without another word he fell upon the poor helpless Lamb and tore her to pieces.
Seite 16 - The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. A Wolf clothing himself in the skin of a sheep, and getting in among the flock, by this means took the opportunity to devour many of them. At last the Shepherd discovered him, and cunningly fastening a rope about his neck, tied him up to a tree which stood hard by. Some other Shepherds happening to pass that way, and observing what he was about, drew near, and expressed their admiration at it. What, says one of them, brother, do you make hanging of sheep?
Seite 140 - While extremists may find some fault with the moderation of our platform, they should recollect that " the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift.
Seite 123 - THE OLD MAN AND HIS SONS. AN Old Man had many Sons, who were often falling out with one another. When the Father had exerted his authority, and used other means in order to reconcile them, and all to no purpose...
Seite 133 - 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.
Seite 42 - Not long after, traversing the forest in pursuit of his prey, he chanced to run into the toils of the hunters ; from whence, not able to disengage himself, he set up a most hideous and loud roar. The Mouse, hearing the voice, and knowing it to be the Lion's, immediately repaired to the place, and bid him fear nothing, for that he was his friend. Then straight he fell...
Seite v - FABLES were the first pieces of wit that made their appearance in the world, and have been still highly valued not only in times of the greatest simplicity, but among the most polite ages of mankind.
Seite 10 - THE FOX IN THE WELL. A FOX, having fallen into a well, made a shift, by sticking his claws into the sides, to keep his head above water. Soon after, a wolf came and peeped over the brink, to whom the fox applied himself very earnestly for assistance, entreating that he would help him to a rope, or something of that kind, which might favour his escape. The wolf, moved with compassion at his misfortune, could not forbear expressing bis concern : —