The fableswere translated into Pehlvi in the sixth century.
Both the Shah-Nahmeh and the Fablesof Bidpai, or Pilpay as they are commonly termed, are published in the Chandos Classics.
In the Moslem East these fables have found a resting-place in much of its literature, from the Koran onwards.
Then the Persian fables were translated into Arabic, and were transmitted to Europe.
The fables which we have now under his name doubtless are a collection of fables and apologues of wits before and after the age of AEsop, conjointly with his own.
He translated the fablesof AEsop into Iambic verse.
The fables of Hades never painted a gloomier abyss or a nether pit so awe-inspiring.
I could have laughed aloud at the fables she invented for the benefit of these simpletons.
A screen with four panels of Beauvais tapestry illustrating La Fontaine's fablesbrought $3,700.
Fontaine's fables and "The Adventures of Don Quixote" took the place of the more dignified designs, and at last sets of chair-backs and sofa covers were woven where previously historic subjects of heroic size had been demanded.
In 1605 Onate founded Santa Fe, the City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis, about whose age a great many foolish fables have been written.
That is on a par with the impossible fables which lured so many of the early Spaniards to disappointment and death, and is a fair sample of the gilded glamour with which equally credulous historians still surround early America.
The intelligent reader readily perceives that he must believe only in those great events which appear plausible, and view with pity the fables with which fanaticism, romantic taste and credulity have at all times filled the world.
They strive to get their pieces played; they previously submit them to the judgment of actors; they solicit a word of praise from the Mercure; they read fablesat the sittings of the Academy.
When a man has been admiring the noble feats in the fables what more is expected of him?
In addition to his medical and philosophic attainments, he wrote a number of poems, and he was among the first to translate fables from German into Hebrew.
In his Exhortations to Pagans, he pointed out the absurdity of idolatry, and of the fables of Paganism.
Grave were the actors, majestic the ceremonial, and passion-stirring the fables and representations.
Sometimes the body is cured by poisonous substances; so the souls can be ruled by fables when they cannot be governed by truth.
That the Church of Rome copied many of the ceremonies, rites, customs, and fables of Pagan mysteries is certain, for they have been perpetuated in that Church down to our days.
Those fableswere repeated to infants by nurses and mothers.
Thus Muzio declares that the ancient fables are the best poetic materials, since they permit the introduction of the deities into poetry, and a poem, being something divine, should not dispense with the association of divinity.
Döllinger, “Fables respecting the Popes of the Middle Ages.
Their lies and heretical fables are now so completely exploded that even day-labourers and cow-men could prove to scholars their emptiness, and the pope with his cardinals ventures not for shame to show himself in the city of Rome.
Döllinger, “Fables Respecting the Popes of the Middle Ages.
Romish fabrications and interpolations, by means of which the numerous fabricated acts of Romish martyrs, as well as already existing fables referring to particular popes and emperors (comp.
Those old fellows like Duerer, Holbein, Mantegna, and the rest, were left unmolested to spin intofables whatever struck them as beautiful or odd.
Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity and making some splendid studies from real life here, you quietly work away at your fables and turn your back on this fine specimen of Nature.
An interpretation of the popular myth which is about as ingenious and far-fetched as Lord Bacon's expositions of the 'Fables of the Ancients,' of which it may be said that they possess every merit but that of probability!
In this he is right; the morality of the greater part of these fables leaves much to be desired.
How can we be so blind as to call fables moral lessons for children?
For the words of fables are no more the fables themselves than the words of history are history itself.
Dollinger's Fables Respecting the Popes of the Middle Ages (Engl.
It is evident that some of the exaggerated stories related to him by the people of Celebes (the plant not being indigenous at Amboina) suggested to Mr. Foersch, the fables with which he amused the world.
In La Fontaine's Fables X, 14, a man gains a kingdom by carrying an elephant.
In Bohn's edition we are told that it appears in an English garb amongst a translation of AEsop's Fablespublished in 1658.
Weber supposes that the Indians borrowed all the fables representing the jackal as a wise animal, as he is not particularly cunning.
It was edited by Silvestre de Sacy under the title, "Calila et Dimna ou Fables de Bidpai," and has been translated into German by Wolff, and into English by Knatchbull.
Cornewall Lewis's edition of the Fables of Babrius, Part II.
Benfey argues that this does not prove that these fables are not of Indian origin.
Fortune and the Fabulist A Writer of Fables was passing through a lonely forest when he met a Fortune.
Seeing an attendant approaching, the wise and illustrious Writer of Fables passed out of the tent and mingled with the crowd.
As it is, I cannot permit his fables to be read in the presence of my family.
The Fabulist and the Animals A Wise and illustrious Writer of Fables was visiting a travelling menagerie with a view to collecting literary materials.
In their present shape, the fables should be very popular among the inmates of the nursery, more particularly as they are illustrated with nearly thirty clever drawings by Henry Ford, which are beautifully printed in monochrome.
Some fables and abuses may perhaps have crept into both, but they are of the same family.
It was out of this fact that thefables of animals possessing human speech arose.
The very fables of the world's childhood should be sacred from our laughter.
As Bacon said: "I would rather believe all the fables in the Talmud and the Koran than that this universal frame is without a mind!
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