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...thin the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aesop’s Fables translated by George Fyler Townsend , the Pennsylvania Sta... ............40 THE L ION AND THE B OAR ....................................41 Aesop’s Fables THE O NE E YED D OE ........................................ .............70 THE P EACOCK AND J UNO .....................................70 Aesop’s Fables THE H AWK AND THE N IGHTINGALE .......................7... .............99 THE F ROGS’ C OMPLAINT A GAINST THE S UN ...........99 LIFE OF AESOP ...........................................100 PREFACE* .............. .............102 ENDNOTES ..................................................110 Aesop’s Fables Aesop’s Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend THE W... ...a second time es caped. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account. 6 Aesop’s Fables THE A SS AND THE G RASSHOPPER AN ASS having heard some ... ... would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.” Like will draw like. 7 Aesop’s Fables THE F ATHER AND H IS S ONS A FATHER had a family of sons... ...e. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jew els in the world.” 8 Aesop’s Fables THE K INGDOM OF THE L ION THE BEASTS of the field and f... ...ed, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. 9 Aesop’s Fables THE F ISHERMAN P IPING A FISHERMAN skilled in music took ...

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... them had a few books, which he borrowed eagerly. Thus he read and reread, AEsop’s Fables, learning to tell stories with a point and to argue by parab... ...but the Bible was in every house, and somehow or other Pilgrim’s Progress, AEsop’s Fables, a History of the United States, and a Life of Washington fe... ... and forms in all ages of the world. That great fabulist and philoso- pher Aesop illustrated it by his fable of the bundle of sticks; and he whose wis...

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...berties practised, but, for the most part, without success; they relish of AEsop’s ass who, in emu- lation of the dog, obligingly clapped his two fore... ...hose who made profession of knowledge and their immeasurable self-conceit. AEsop was set to sale with two other slaves; the buyer asked the first of t... ...know not what; the second said as much of himself or more: when it came to AEsop’s turn, and that he was also asked what he could do; “Nothing,” said ... ... that it loses its way, and is made drunk with the motion: not much unlike AEsop’s dogs, that seeing something like a dead body floating in the sea, a... ...by turns they follow and mutually beget one another; and cried out to good AEsop, that he ought out of this consideration to have taken matter for a f...

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...-bag and a few neces- saries? I saw the end of the fable rapidly approaching, when I should have to carry Modestine. AEsop was the man to know the wor...

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...colossal sublimity should first emerge from such a writer as Phaedrus, the Aesopian fabulist. A great mistake it was, on the part of Doctor S., that t... ...s—a writer ambitious of investing the simplicity, or rather homeliness, of Aesop with aulic graces and satiric brilliancy. But so it was; and Phaedrus... ... stirring to my childish sense, seemed to burn as in some mighty pharos:— “Aesopo statuam ingentem posuere Attici; Servumque collocârunt eternâ in bas... ... collocârunt eternâ in basi:” A colossal statue did the Athenians raise to Aesop; and a poor pariah slave they planted upon an everlasting pedestal. I... ...Quincey to the antithesis between the two parties so enormously di- vided,—Aesop the slave and the Athenians,—must be read as an appoggiatura, or hurr...

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...ung gentlemen are extraordi- nary! Especially that Davidka, he’s a regular Aesop! I got up at daybreak and went to the window.... I looked out and, wh...

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...whole, how unknown is a man to himself; or a public Body of men to itself! Aesop’s fly sat on the chariot- wheel, exclaiming, What a dust I do raise! ...

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...a fiction.” This Hermippus relates, from Pataecus, who boasted that he had Aesop’s soul. However, it is irrational and poor-spirited not to seek con- ... ...his, he was dismissed, having given Croesus some pain, but no instruction. Aesop, who wrote the fables, being then at Sardis upon Croesus’s invitation... ...sum and completion of happy fortune. For the death of happy men is not, as Aesop ob- serves, most grievous, but most blessed, since it secures their f... ... practices. But the people of Seleucia had reason to commend the wisdom of Aesop's fable of the wallet, seeing their general Surena carrying a bag ful...

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...to the instruc- tions, sometimes of Roscius the comedian, and sometimes of Aesop the tragedian. They tell of this Aesop, that whilst he was representi... ... a contest between a counterfeit and a true, unadulterated virtue, and, as Aesop tells us that the cuckoo once, asking the little birds why they flew ... ...hus were by special agreement put into his hands, following the example of Aesop’s hunter; for he would not get up and ride the Achaeans, who desired ...

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... him.” “That, Charlie, is a fable about as unjust to the ocean, as some of Aesop’s are to the animals. The ocean is a magnani- mous element, and would...

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...and rich through poverty. People who prefer the Law to the Gospel are like Aesop’s dog who let go of the meat to snatch at the shadow of the water. Th...

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...d inflated his chest to do jus- tice to the illustration of the faggots of Aesop: but Mr. T om Breeks had either taken in too much air, or the ale tha...

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...ays has to be binding one’s faggot,’ she said to Mrs Finn, having read her Aesop, not altogether in vain. ‘Where should we have been without you?’ she...

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...several of the most distinguished au- thors of antiquity, and amongst them Aesop and Terence, were, or had been slaves. Slaves were not always taken f...

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...to is preparing the way for his doctrine of the alternation of opposites.) ‘ Aesop would have represented them in a fable as a two headed creature of ... ...sented them in a fable as a two headed creature of the gods.’ The mention of Aesop reminds Cebes of a question which had been asked by Evenus the poet... ...pol.): ‘Why Socrates, who was not a poet, while in prison had been put ting Aesop into verse?’—’Because several times in his life he had been warned ... ...wo, but they are joined by a single head. And I cannot help thinking that if Aesop had remembered them, he would have made a fable about God trying to... ...on this Cebes said: I am glad, Socrates, that you have mentioned the name of Aesop. For it reminds me of a ques tion which has been asked by many, an... ...ore wrote a line of poetry, now that you are in prison 43 Plato are turning Aesop’s fables into verse, and also composing that hymn in honour of Apol... ...t should invent stories, and that I have no invention, I took some fables of Aesop, which I had ready at hand and which I knew—they were the first I c...

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...lity, or soft ness; which taketh an honest mind prisoner. Neither give thou AEsop’s cock a gem, who would be better pleased, and happier, if he had h... ...t time, and yet revive, upon the occasion or temptation. Like as it was with AEsop’s damsel, turned from a cat to a woman, who sat very demutely at th... ...s they prove excellent persons; as was Agesilaus, Zanger the son of Solyman, AEsop, Gasca, Presi dent of Peru; and Socrates may go likewise amongst t... ...agnificabo apostolatum meum . 116 Of Vain glory I t was prettily devised of AEsop, The fly sat upon the axle tree of the chariot wheel, and said, Wha...

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... them by politeness, and… and… show them that I’ve nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this ... ...must… I’ll find out at once where she is…. Good-bye, Alexey! Not a word to Aesop about the money now. But go to Katerina Ivanovna at once and be sure ... ... him away perhaps he’ d have murdered him. It wouldn’t take much to do for Aesop, would 130 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part I it?” whispered Ivan to A... ... that case let me ask you, do you think me like Dmitri capable of shedding Aesop’s blood, murder- ing him, eh?” “What are you saying, Ivan? Such a...

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...on their road. The present fray had turn’d my thoughts to muse Upon old Aesop’s fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befell. Fo... ...See Canto XXXIII. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 116 CANTO XXIII v. 5. Aesop’s fable.] The fable of the frog, who offered to carry the mouse acr... ...ff by a kite. It is not among those Greek Fables which go under the name of Aesop. v. 63. Monks in Cologne.] They wore their cowls unusually large. ...

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... the true means prefer, In fool’s coat acting th’ philosopher. Thus hoary Aesop’s beasts did mildly tame Fierce man, and moralize him into shame; Thu... ... see some yet in the world, of divers sexes and degrees. Of this race came Aesop, some of whose excellent words and deeds you have in writing. Some ot... ...but this very morn- ing I met with a good fellow, who, in a wallet such as Aesop’s was, carried two little girls of two or three years old at the most... ...owing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue. Such a world will perish undoubt- edly; and ... ...cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose Aesop, rough-footed Lycaon, the luskish misshapen Corytus of T uscany, nor ... ... found anywhere. This is exceeding judiciously and prudently deciphered by Aesop in his Apologues, who there affirmeth that every man in the world car... ...ght to drink), I will tell you what is written among the apologues of wise Aesop the Frenchman. I mean the Phrygian and Trojan, as 517 Rabelais Max. ... ... wood felled or cleaved in that country through want of hatchets. Nay, the Aesopian apologue even saith that certain petty country gents of the lower ... ... time, after the manner of the members that mutinied against the belly, as Aesop describes it, the whole kingdom of the Somates went off into a direct...

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.... Burnet and G. Ducket, Esquires]. Printed for W. Wilkins, 1715, price 9d. Aesop at the Bear Garden; a Vision, in imitation of the T emple of Fame. By... ...re per- formed at court.—W . 289 ‘Ogilby—God save King Log:’ See Ogilby’s Aesop’s Fables, where, in the story of the Frogs and their King, this excel... ...’ an ill-natured critic, who wrote a satire on our author, called The Mock Aesop, and many anonymous li- bels in newspapers for hire.—P . 361 ‘Ralph:...

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...ns presented to it; but they are weak and imperfect. Most of the fables of AEsop have diverse senses and meanings, of which the my- thologists chose s... ...e, since our health depends upon the vanity and falsity of their promises. AEsop, a most excellent author, and of whom few men discover all the graces... ...enture the making ourselves better without any danger of being made worse. AEsop tells a story, that one who had bought a Morisco slave, believing tha...

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...on their road. The present fray had turn’d my thoughts to muse Upon old Aesop’s fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befell. Fo... ...See Canto XXXIII. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 116 CANTO XXIII v. 5. Aesop’s fable.] The fable of the frog, who offered to carry the mouse acr... ...ff by a kite. It is not among those Greek Fables which go under the name of Aesop. v. 63. Monks in Cologne.] They wore their cowls unusually large. ...

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...long the way. My thought was turned by the present brawl upon the fable of Aesop, in which he tells of the frog and the mole; for now and this instant...

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... them by politeness, and… and… show them that I’ve nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this ... ...must… I’ll find out at once where she is…. Good-bye, Alexey! Not a word to Aesop about the money now. But go to Katerina Ivanovna at once and be sure ... ...him away perhaps he’ d have murdered him. It wouldn’ t take much to do for Aesop, would 130 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV it?” whispered Ivan to Alyosha. ... ... that case let me ask you, do you think me like Dmitri capable of shedding Aesop’s blood, murder- ing him, eh?” “What are you saying, Ivan? Such a... ...yself and I beg his pardon. I was a beast and cruel to him. I was cruel to Aesop too.” “What Aesop?” the President asked sternly again. “Oh, P...

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...ne after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop, of Homer, of Hafiz, of Ariosto, of Chaucer, of Scott, and verifies t... ...the stars fall from heaven as the figtree casteth her untimely fruit; when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily rela- 205 Emerson tions ...

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...short, broad, but not fat, ill-shaped without being deformed; in short, an Aesop in gown and wig. His more than seventy-years-old face was completely ... ...e-eminence was at last ascribed, with the highest degree of conviction, to Aesop’s fables! Strange as such a deduction may now appear, it had the most...

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..., proceeded at once to transla tion; and I faintly remember going through Aesop’s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I ...

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...ded about, it appears, and I have had several letters; and – distraction. ‘AEsop: the Miller and the Ass.’ Notes on details:– 1. I love the occasional...

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...e other after, As go the Minor Friars along their way. Upon the fable of Aesop was directed My thought, by reason of the present quarrel, Where ...

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...erefore I mark the most minute particulars. And let it be remembered, that Aesop at play is one of the instructive apologues of antiquity. Talking of ...

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... o’clock at night! Instead of being Mrs Radcliffe, I shall think you’re Mr Aesop. ’ He took up the article which he had come to seek, and kissing her ...

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...whole, how unknown is a man to himself; or a public Body of men to itself! Aesop’s fly sat on the chariot-wheel, exclaiming, What a dust I do raise! G...

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... the more artificial form of apologues, like what are called the fables of Aesop; and sometimes in the more simple one of apophthegms or wise sayings,...