| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...Goldsmith remarked that the animals introduced seldom talked in character. " For instance," he said, " take the fable of the little fishes who saw birds fly over...them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. lng by Sir Joihun Roynold.. London. The skill consists in making them talk like little fishes." Dr.... | |
| Charles Dent Bell - English poetry - 1895 - 296 pages
...Johnson, and Goldsmith were together one day, when the latter said he could write a very good fable ; mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition...that in most fables the animals introduced seldom talked in character. " For instance," said he, " the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...Goldsmith remarked that the animals introduced seldom talked in character. " For instance," he said, " take the fable of the little fishes who saw birds fly over...petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill consists in making them talk like little fishes." Dr. Johnson took exception to the remark. "Ah, Doctor,"... | |
| Everhardus Johannes Potgieter - Dutch poetry - 1899 - 454 pages
...he could write a good fable; „mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition requirea ; „and observed that in most fables the animals introduced...he, „the fable of the little fishes „„who saw birda flying over their heads, and envying them peti„„tioned Ju pi ter to be changed into birda.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 304 pages
...Goldsmith were together one day, when the latter said that he thought he could write a good fable, mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition...petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill," he continued, " consists in making them talk like little fishes." At this point he observed Johnson... | |
| John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...Goldsmith were together one day, when the latter said that he thought he could write a good fable; mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition...instance," said he, " the fable of the little fishes THE DESERTED PILLAGE 341 who saw birds fly high over their heads, and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...Goldsmith remarked that the animals introduced seldom talked in character. " For instance," he said, "take the fable of the little fishes who saw birds fly over...petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill consists in making them talk like little fishes." Dr. Johnson took exception to the remark. " Ah, Doctor,"... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...character. " For instance," he said, " take the fable of the little fishes who saw birds fly °ver their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill consists in making them talk like little fishes." Dr. Johnson took exception to the remark. " Ah, Doctor,"... | |
| Washington Irving - 1907 - 472 pages
...peculiarities. Talking >f fables, Goldsmith observed that the animals introluced in them seldom talked in character. "For instance," said he, " the fable of the little fishes, who saw * The following is given by Boswell, as an instance of robust sophistry : — " Once, when I was pressing... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...Goldsmith had one day said that he believed he could write a good fable, and could make the animals talk in character. ' For instance (said he), the fable...consists in making them talk like little fishes.' Johnson laughed at this speech — is it possible he was remembering that fishes cannot talk? But his... | |
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