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A collection of the most famous from Aesop's fables in Russian language. Translated by Tolstoj L.N. and Alekseev V.A.

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...Baby's Own Aesop presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each pictorially pointed by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who furnished the draft of the book...

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...The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and im...

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...The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and im...

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...The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and im...

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...The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and im...

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...The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and im...

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...The classic Aesop's Fables have been translated to every language for hundreds of years. The fables, told in the form of allegories, give us universal, worldly advice. The use of animals and ancient gods makes the lessons unbiased and im...

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...dern concept of fable is that it should have animals or inanimated objects as characters - an idea supported by the works of famous fabulists such as Aesop and La Fontaine - Phaedrus, the most important Latin fabulist, is innovative in his writing. Although many of his fables do depict animals or objects assuming speech, he also has many short stories about men, writing na...

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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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... Come to me...free me from trouble... P Today I received a letter from Aesop, written at Adelphi. It is a joy to hear from him. I thought he had ... ...s me. I must go to sleep. Forget! P Another letter has reached me from Aesop. Still in Adelphi, he writes he has been sick with fever. “My conso... ...y important to me. Is our life important to anyone else? P No word from Aesop. P Sometimes I have to get away from everything and everyone, mysel... ...w, the murmur of waves part of their leisure and sad conversation about Aesop. 57 Mytilene 642 B.C. y heart is heavy...Aesop, m... ...e...alone... I was much more alone. Alone in my library, I opened the box Aesop had given me and removed his fox, lion, donkey, raven and frog. He h... ...If only he could have stayed in Corinth...” And remembering what a friend Aesop had been to us, he said: “He knew I liked bread from that oven of St... ... their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he has on dark b... ... events of this past fortnight. I had barely recovered from the shock of Aesop’s death, when word came that Alcaeus had been attacked. I had gone ... ...one. He felt them carefully—too slowly—a sad expression on his face. “So Aesop made them?” he said. “It’s good you have them...proof that his world...

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...lanation to the fable about the ass and the lion in Luther’s little book on Aesop’s Fables, which included his translation of 14 of the fables. Luthe...

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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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...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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...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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...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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.... 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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..., 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 ...