The Fables of ÆsopFrederick Warne and Company, 1866 - 264 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Æsop Alexander Severus ancient ancient Greece APPLICATION Aulus Gellius Babrius Bachet de Mezeriac bad company bear beasts beauty better bird choliambic Cock companions conduct Crane creatures Croesus CROW Cupid and Death danger death desire devour divine doth duty Eagle endeavoured enemy Esop evil example fable teaches fault fear folly forest friends Frogs George Cornewall Lewis give happiness heart honour Horse human Jupiter King KITE labour Lamb learned lesson lest liberty Lion live man's master Maximus Planudes mind mischief MORAL Mouse mouth nature neighbours never occasion pain Peacock Peisistratus persons Phalaris Pigeons Planudes poor pray proverb reason replied resolved revenge Reynard RINGDOVE ruler Samuel Croxall says seeks Sheep society spirit Stag Stork strength suffer thing Thomas Tyrwhitt thou tion true truth unworthy wise Wolf words young youth
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Página 141 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 183 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 133 - With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Página 211 - Thro' weary life this lesson learn, That man was made to mourn. Many and sharp the numerous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still We make ourselves, Regret, remorse, and shame! And man, whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn...
Página 74 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Página 172 - The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Página 22 - Tis true she bounded by and tripped so light, They had not time to take a steady sight; For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Página 176 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply. 100 Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
Página 67 - Know, villains, when such paltry slaves presume To mix in treason, if the plot succeeds, They're thrown neglected by ; but, if it fails, They're sure to die like dogs, as you shall do. Here, take these factious monsters, drag them forth To sudden death...
Página 240 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.