The long Crusading Romance is relieved by a sequence of sixteen fabliaux, partly historiettes of men and beasts and partly apologues proper--a subject already noticed.
FN#241] In the Katha Sarit Sagara the beast-apologues are more numerous, but they can be reduced to two great nuclei; the first in chapter lx.
Both these Apologueshave been translated by Sir W.
I must in this return to my subject, the elucidation of the rise and progress of apologues and fables.
I have formerly alluded to the cause which leads all ranks in Persia to blend fables and apologues in their discourse, but this subject merits a more particular notice.
Admitting that the inhabitants of Europe received these tales and apologues from the Saracens, the next question is, where did they get them?
In the same manner ancient customs, ancient beliefs and ancient tradition have been caught in the liquid tales, apologues and legends, like the fly in the amber, and carried along with them from East to West.
It is the literature of the apologues without any framework or moral setting.
And it is therefore not possible to postulate for the tales and apologues survivals of such antiquity as is now so often assumed.
Still, in spite of the difference of moral level, Martin Luther thought so highly of apologues as counsellors of virtue that he edited and revised Aesop and wrote a characteristic preface to the volume.
On the other hand, in the romances of Reynard the Fox we have medieval apologues arranged in cycles, and attaining epical dimensions.
Of these the simple and engaging apologues of many ancient writers form a considerable portion, and have always been justly and generally esteemed.
It occurs in a collection of apologues that remain only in manuscript, and have been severally ascribed to Hugo of Saint Victor, and Odo de Sheriton or Shirton, an English Cistercian Monk of the 12th century.
In the eighth section of the 'Fihrist' the author says that the first who composed tales and apologues were the kings of the early Persian dynasties, and that these tales were augmented and amplified by the Sasanians (A.
It is believed that the fables andapologues are the oldest part of the book.
Its fables and apologues the oldest part of the work.
The episodes and apologues with which the story abounds have furnished materials to poets and story-tellers in various ages and of very diverse characters; e.
This is but the skeleton of the story, but the episodes andapologues which round its dimensions, and give it its mediaeval popularity, do not concern our subject.
The pithy apologues which fell from his lips, which, like the rules of arithmetic, solved the difficult problems of human conduct constantly presented to him, were remembered when the speeches that contained them were forgotten.
Besides these collections among the Romans, we find apologues scattered through the writings of their best poets and historians, and embalmed in those specimens of their oratory which have come down to us.
The apologues of the Greeks and Romans were brief, pithy, and epigrammatic, and their collections were without any principle of connection.
Such, probably, was the origin of the apologueswhich now form the bulk of the most popular collections.
Sagacious, wise, witty, his apologues (1759) have nothing superfluous about them.
La Fontaine says[54] that the writing of apologues is a gift sent down from the immortals.
The memory of these clung to him through life, and, as occasion offered, he occupied himself in composing apologues in imitation of those with which he was familiar in his early years.
The following version of one of the most famous of the Eastern apologues is from Monferrato (Comparetti, No.
African Literature is very rich in fables of animals, which may be divided into the two categories of moral apologues and simple narrations.
His happiest success is in the tales and apologues which illustrate the adventures that constitute a framework for his poetry, which is natural and spirited; and in this, as in other points, he strikingly resembles Chaucer.
Ethiopic origin; his apologues have been considered the model on which Greek fable was constructed.
His works consist chiefly of apologues and didactic and descriptive poems.
Splendid examples of didactic poetry may be found in the episodes of the epic poems, and more particularly in the collections of fables and apologues in which the Sanskrit literature abounds.
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