Select fables in three parts [T78508] [ecco]

DMI number:

1050

Publication Date:

1784

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T78508

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124572923

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

SELECT | FABLES. | In THREE PARTS. | Part I. FABLES extracted from DODSLEY'S. | Part II. FABLES with REFLECTIONS, in Prose and Verse. | Part III. FABLES in VERSE. | To which are prefixed, | The LIFE of AESOP; and an ESSAY upon FABLE. | [rule] | A New EDITION, improved. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]NEWCASTLE:[/i] | Printed by and for T. SAINT. | [short rule] | MDCCLXXXIV.

Epigraph:

[i]----Is not the earth | With various living[/i] creatures, [i]and the air | Replenished, and all those at thy command | To come and play before thee? Knowest thou not | Their language and their ways? They also know, | and reason not contemptibly: with these | Find pastime.[/i] Paradise Lost, b. 8. l. 370.

Place of Publication:

Newcatle

Genres:

Collection including prose and Collection of fables

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

Each fable has an engraved woodcut headpieces.

Comments:

Contents: prose fables pp. 1-66; prose fables with morals in prose and verse pp. 67-228; verse fables pp. 229-308. Duplicate poem: poem 30750 appears twice in this miscellany, on p. 115 + 193.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Life of Aesop pp. [iii]-ix; Essay upon Fable pp. ix-xii. End matter: Index pp. [i]-ii.

Related People

Engraver:

John Bewick

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Absolute (100%)

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Engraver:

Thomas Bewick

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Publisher:

Thomas Saint

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To join the wild with creatures that are tame

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To fools the treasures dug from wisdom's mine

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p.68

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Heaven in one mould the kindred fate has cast

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It is a maxim in the schools

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The miseries of half mankind unknown

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Pert coxcombs pleased with buzzing round the fair

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Proud of the clothes with which you are equipped

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The youth to temperance in vain pretends

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Base is the man who pines amidst his store

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Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow

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Rank lies repeated oft and oft detected

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Distress and ruin on divisions wait

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Assiduous pains the swelling coffers fill

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Virtue despised the beauty views her face

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Evil for good relentless to bestow

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The wretch who works not for his daily bread

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Truth sacred truth shall flourish and prevail

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Minions of fortune pillars of the state

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Thus by the knave in worldly guile adept

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The man whom we fear and suspect for a cheat

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The knave professed may seem a generous foe

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p.114

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Inactive wishes are but waste of time

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p.115

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Gladly sir Clumsy would the world persuade

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How weak the atheist's argument how odd

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p.121

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Look well my friend over life's amazing scene

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pp.123-124

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A View of Life

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They who by imitations covet fame

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p.126

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Happy the ready wit of men of parts

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p.129

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O now while health and vigour still remain

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p.131

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The golden hair that Galla wears

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p.133

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When the loud laugh prevails at your expence

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p.133

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Nature and friendship held in love sincere

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pp.134-135

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Nature and Friendship.

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Swift is obscure and Addison wants taste

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p.137

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Wise are the people who in peace prepare

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p.141

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Contentment sweet propitious power

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pp.143-144

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On Contentment

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When wayward children in the pride of youth

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pp.147-148

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The man that is poor may be void of all care

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p.149

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The gods one time as poets feign

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When nations raise an idiot to the throne

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With such an inmate who would be perplexed

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Ill fares that neighbourhood where slanderers meet

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Take courage hence ye wise nor dread deceit

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How few with prudence life's perfections scan

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pp.164-165

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Look round the circuit of the world

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pp.167-168

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Still blind to reason nature and his god

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p.170

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Ill manners may deform the fairest face

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p.173

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Not urged by vain ambition's airy dreams

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Oh with what joy would I resign my breath

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p.178

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When frowning fates thy sanguine hopes defeat

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Old maids who loath the matrimonial state

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Witlings beware nor wantonly provoke

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Thus the vain alchemist in promise bold

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p.186

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On things of moment with thyself debate

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Faithful to man and to thy conscience just

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Thus early sinning and repenting late

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Born to the comforts of an humble state

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Tradesman insult not if a neighbour fail

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The sly politician may boast of his arts

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O let not those whom honest servants bless

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Thus quibbling thieves evade the charge

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Whose life is safe if tried before a judge

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Ye cits of narrow means and small estate

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Hail gratitude the spark whence virtue springs

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With vice allied however pure

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Fathers and mothers train your children's youth

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Thus oft the industrious poor endures reproach

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Short sighted wretch endure thy care

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Eager to mend and brookless of delay

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A cuckoo once as cuckoos use

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p.229

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Fable I. The Cuckoo Traveller.

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Twas that bleak season of the year

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pp.231-233

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Fable II. The Ant and the Grasshopper.

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A prowling wolf that scoured the plains

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pp.233-234

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Fable III. The Wolf and the Dog.

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How few with patience can endure

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pp.235-236

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Fable IV. The Nightingale.

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Two hungry foxes once agreed

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pp.237-239

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Fable V. The two Foxes.

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Twas on a day serene and fair

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pp.239-241

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Fable VI. The Butterfly and Boy.

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Wedlock a name not much in fashion

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pp.241-244

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Fable VII. The Hounds in Couples.

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In days of yore as authors tell

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pp.244-246

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Fable VIII. The Sow and the Peacock.

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Thousands who start at Nero's name

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pp.247-250

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Fable IX. The King-Dove.

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Oft has it been my lot to mark

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p.250

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The Camelion. Fable X.

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The tree of deepest root is found

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pp.253-257

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Fable XI. The Three Warnings.

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The morning blushed with vivid red

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pp.257-262

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Fable XII. The Caterpillar and Butterfly.

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Two turtles once of gentlest kind

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pp.263-266

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Fable XIII. The two Doves.

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When summer decked each silvan scene

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pp.267-269

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Fable XIV. The Beau and Butterfly.

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As two young bears in wanton mood

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pp.269-270

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Fable XV. The Bears and Bees.

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Once on a time when great sir oak

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p.273

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Fable XVI. The Trees.

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When toilsome hours of day were spent

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pp.274-276

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Fable XVII. The Philosopher and Glow-Worm.

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Beside a gentle murming brook

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pp.276-278

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Fable XVIII. The Angler and the Philosopher.

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The kingly ruler of the plain

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pp.278-284

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Fable XIX. The Lion and other Beasts in Council.

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Studious from differing tales to show

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p.289

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Fable XX. The Goat and the Fox.

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I'll try to mimic honest Gay

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pp.290-293

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Fable XXI. The Kite and Nightingale.

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Friendship source of bliss sedate

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pp.293-299

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Fable XXII. The Four Bulls.

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The squire had dined alone one day

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pp.299-302

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Fable XXIII. The Pepper-box and Salt-seller.

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A thick twisted brake in the time of a storm

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p.303

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Fable XXIV. The Sheep and the Bramble Bush.

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Perched on a poplar's verdant spray

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pp.304-306

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Fable XXV. The Blackbird and Bulfinch.

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Twas in the charming month of may

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pp.306-308

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Fables XXVI. The conceited Fly.

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