Fables and Satires: With a Preface on the Esopean Fable, Volume 1George Ramsay, 1809 - Classical literature |
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Common terms and phrases
Æsop Æsopi amongst Anacharsis Aphtonius apologue Appear'd ask'd AVIENUS beast beauty Begg'd choliambic conceal'd creature Cresus cries Demades Demosthenes e'er Eagle Esop Esop's Esopean fables FABLE II FABLE VIII FABLE XIV fabulas false fame fate fear folly fools force Frog gain'd give Græc Greek guage haste honours imitate Jove king knave labours Lafontaine language langue Latin lesson Lion ludicra Lysippus maxim Menander moral mother name of Gabrias nature ne'er neighbour Neveletus night Nightingale o'er Palatine library Periander Phedrus Philostratus Pisistratus plac'd Planudes Plutarch praise pray pretended prey Prince Priscian prize Prolog PROLOGUE qu'il quæ Raven Reed replies Reynard robber sages says scorn Sejanus shepherds slave Socrates Solon soon Stag style Suidas Swallow thee thou translation tree truth Vavassor vile whelps Willow wise Wolf wretch
Popular passages
Page xviii - Encore si vous naissiez a 1'abri du feuillage dont je couvre le voisinage, — vous n'auriez pas tant a souffrir ; je vous defendrais de 1'orage. — Mais vous naissez le plus souvent sur les humides bords des royaumes du vent. — La nature envers vous me semble bien injuste.
Page ix - On ne peut trop louer trois sortes de personnes : Les Dieux, sa Maîtresse, et son Roi. Malherbe le disait ; j'y souscris quant à moi : Ce sont maximes toujours bonnes. La louange chatouille et gagne les esprits ; Les faveurs d'une belle en sont souvent le prix.
Page xv - JEolus was addressed by both parties, to exert his most powerful efforts. This was no sooner asked than granted; and a violent hurricane arose: when the pliant Willow, bending from the blast, or shrinking...
Page xix - The familiar style/ he continues, ' which is neither flat nor vulgar, is difficult to hit in any language ; and, I think, peculiarly so in the present state of the English. The chief force and beauty of this style seems to consist in the proper use of colloquial idioms. But as these are generally formed in the early periods of original tongues, while they are taking their cast and character ; in borrowed and compound languages like ours they will be neither abundant nor very expressive. And the few...
Page xviii - L'arbre tient bon, le roseau plie; Le vent redouble ses efforts, Et fait si bien qu'il deracine Celui de qui la tete au ciel elait voisine, Et dont les pieds touchaient a 1'empire des morts.
Page xxx - ... a short neck, crokbacked, great bely, great legs, large feet ; and yet that which was worse, he was dombe, and could not speake: but notwithstanding this, he had a singular wit, and was greatly ingenious and subtyll in cavillations and plcasaunt in woordes, after he came to his speache, 8vo.
Page 153 - she says, ' to meet the sun ; Your task of yesterday 's undone ; A thousand fresh delights you miss, In dozing at an hour like this ; You lengthen out the hours of slumber Beyond what health and nature number ; Arise, if you a man would be ! From these enfeebling toils be free ! ' ' Lie still ! ' cries Sloth ; ' it is not warm ; An hour's more sleep can do no harm ; You will have time your work to do, And leisure for amusement too.
Page xxi - Ics langues lettrees doivent changer de caractere, et perdre de la force en gagnant de la clarte'; que, plus on s'attache a perfectionner la grammaire et la logique, plus on...
Page xxx - Amonio : how he was of all other men most diffourmed and evil shapen : for he had a great head, a large visage, long jawes, sharp eyen, a short neck, crok-backed, great bely, great legs, large feet : and yet that which was worse, he was dombe, and could not speake : but notwithstanding this, he had a singular wit, and was greatly _ ingenious and subtyll in cavillations and plcasaunt in woordes, after he came to his speache.
Page xv - ... evaded all its force, while the generous Oak, disdaining to give way, opposed its fury, and was torn up by the roots. Immediately the Willow began to exult, and to claim the victory, when thus the fallen Oak interrupted his exultation: Callest thou this a trial of strength ? Poor wretch ! not to thy strength, but weakness ; not to thy boldly facing danger, but meanly skulking from it, thou owest thy present safety.