The apologue is well known of the long-eared ass, who, when called upon to judge between the nightingale and the cuckoo as to who has the sweetest voice, decides in favour of the cuckoo.
We find the stag in relation with the horse, as his stronger rival until man mounts upon the horse's back, in the well-known apologue of Horace, Epist.
The beginning of the twenty-first Mongol story offers a new analogy with the apologue of Perrette.
Shall I, as an elder, speak to you as younger men in an apologue or myth, or shall I argue out the question?
This is an apologue in rhyme, with a moral in addition, and followed by a voluminous prose disquisition on questions of morality, partaking of all the audacious paradoxical elements which characterized its ingenious author.
The Fable or Apologue has been variously defined by different writers.
The truth of this is exemplified in the use which has been made of the apologue by orators in all ages, but especially in early times.
This thesis is illustrated with an extraordinary wealth of imagery and apologue throughout the six books composing the work.
England, after his return from captivity in the East, a similar apologue proving the innate ingratitude of man.
Now it is obvious that such an artificial apologue on man's ingratitude could not have been invented twice for that particular purpose; and thus the hundred different versions (to which Dr.
He also says the final word as to the moral of the story: "This is a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.
The poem that follows is a very familiar one, and its treatment of its theme may be compared with that in Henry Ward Beecher's little prose apologue (No.
For a popular account of the whole philosophy of the apologue consult Newbigging, Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern.
This little apologue is taken from Norwood (1867), a novel written by Henry Ward Beecher for the New York Ledger in the days when that periodical, under the direction of Robert Bonner, was the great family weekly of America.
But in an apologue where the swallow boasts to the crow of its beauty, the crow answers that he is always equally beautiful, whilst the swallow is only beautiful in spring.
Tommaso Badino of Piacenza[398] narrates anapologue which reminds us of the biblical legend of the Deluge.
In an apologue the swallow warns the hen not to sit upon the eggs of the serpent.
It is interesting to compare with this the Siamese apologue published by A.
This is a moralapologue on the benefits of keeping your word.
We have thus traced it to England whence it passed to Wales, where I have discovered it as the second apologue of the "Fables of Cattwg the Wise," in the Iolo MS.
The second form of the legend is always told as a moral apologue against precipitate action, and originally occurred in The Fables of Bidpai in its hundred and one forms, all founded on Buddhistic originals (cf.
That the Gellert legend, before it was localised, was used as a moral apologue in Wales is shown by the fact that it occurs among the Fables of Cattwg, which are all of that character.
The Apologue or Beast-fable proper, a theme which may be of any age, as it is found in the hieroglyphs and in the cuneiforms.
Next in date to the Apologue comes the Fairy Tale proper, where the natural universe is supplemented by one of purely imaginative existence.
The Apologue or Beast-fable, which apparently antedates all other subjects in The Nights, has been called "One of the earliest creations of the awakening consciousness of mankind.
Reynard the Fox--a renowned Apologue of the Middle Ages reproduced in Rhyme.
Before and since Mr. Franklin wrote his pretty apologue of the Whistle have we not all made bargains of which we repented, and coveted and acquired objects for which we have paid too dearly!
The parable is clear enough, and the apologue is eloquent.
The origin of theapologue is extremely ancient and comes from the East, which is the natural fatherland of everything connected with allegory, metaphor and imagination.
Soulle, La Fontaine et ses devanciers (1866), is a history of the apologue from the earliest times until its final triumph in France.
It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.
The apologue seizes on that which man has in common with creatures below him, and the parable on that which he has in common with God.
An apologue is distinguished from a fable in that there is always some moral sense present, which there need not be in a fable.
An Italian fabulist, Corti, is said to have developed an apologueof "The Talking Animals" to the bulk of twenty-six cantos.
In the apologue of Dives and Lazarus the dead appear still in their human forms and talk to each other across the gulf, apparently narrow, which divides the abode of the damned from that of the blessed.
His apologue of Dives and Lazarus shows that to Him as to us the other world was a realm of the imagination.
In the course of his argument he related the famous apologue which Shakespeare has so admirably used in his first Roman play.
Perhaps, on this account, they are too narrative in their structure, and fail somewhat in the genial spirit which distinguishes Esop and La Fontaine, the greatest masters of Apologue and Fable.
Aesop, who lived about six hundred years before Christ, so far as we can reach the reality of his life, was an orator who wielded the apologue with remarkable skill.
