Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern

'A variant of it, or something very like it, was discovered twelve years ago by M. Maspero in a fragmentary papyrus, which he dates about the twentieth dynasty (circa 1250 B.C.).' – Jacobs: 'History of the Æsopic Fable,' p. 82.

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Act I., Scene i.

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Judges ix. 8-15.

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Aristotle in his 'Treatise on Rhetoric,' book ii., chap. xx. has horse-leeches as the blood-suckers.

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Herodotus, i. 141. Cary's translation; Bohn.

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Aristotle's 'Rhetoric,' book ii., chap. xx.

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The episode of the eccentric and, alas! well-nigh forgotten politician, John Arthur Roebuck, in his assumption of the character of 'Tearem,' the watch-dog, will recur to readers.

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In the whole range of literature there are no apter similes than these: the darkness and gloom of the fool's heart and the closeness of the miser's fist.

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A nobleman of the East, famous for his hospitality.

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'About a dozen instances or so must stand for the present as representing the contribution of the Jātakas to the question of the origin of Æsop's fables.' – Jacobs: 'History of Fable.'

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In her 'Commonplace Book,' Longmans, 1854, pp. 142, 143.

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In his dedication to Madame de Montespan.

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Geruzez gives February 13 as the date of La Fontaine's death.

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Preface, 'Fables,' 1668.

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Byron.

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Scott's 'Lay of the Last Minstrel.'

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The opposite of this has been said, but without good reason. The number and variety of his productions attest his industry.

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It has been suggested, that Dr. Johnson and Goldsmith were the 'authors,' and Goldsmith the 'learned friend.' See the preface by Edwin Pearson to the 1871 edition, of Bewick's 'Select Fables of Æsop.'

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Northcote's grammar is at fault here.

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Bouterwick's 'History of Spanish Literature,' book iii., chap. iii.

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London: Remington and Co., 1883.

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London: Strahan and Co., 1868. A second edition appeared the year following.

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Peasant.

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'The Tatler,' No. 115, vol iii., p. 7.

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Mr. Joseph Jacobs, in his erudite 'History of the Æsopian Fable,' shows that this was a mistake on the part of Maria de France, and that the author of the work from which her translation was made was not the King, but 'Alfred the Englishman,' who flourished about A.D. 1170.

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