A forger or a fabulist would have made for Christ, discourses exhorting to virtue and dissuading from vice in general terms.
It came to the American fabulist through many a mythical skin, so to say.
The craft of the wolf is represented in a partly political partly social turn given by an American fabulist to one of AEsop's fables.
The Continental fabulist felt that he could do nothing without this motive of action.
Lardner, master of the racy vernacular of the almost illiterate; George Ade, easily first of his class, fabulist and satirist?
In narrating the story of Ruth and Naomi to children they invariably ask questions of interest, to which the sacred fabulist gives no answer.
The truth rejects what the fabulist tells us as an absurd invention.
Less excusably than La Fontaine, the Greek fabulist wrote of the Cigale of the books, instead of interrogating the living Cigale, whose cymbals were resounding on every side; careless of the real, he followed tradition.
Still, the fabulist thinks it a good idea to do that.
We have to fall back upon conjecture, as our fabulist does when he has nothing more substantial to work with.
The fabulist says: "It was the entrance into a world more amiable and exquisite than he had yet known.
The fabulist finds fault with the statement because it has a technical error in it; and he does this at the moment that he is furnishing us an error himself, and of a graver sort.
Ought not that to be enough, if the fabulistis serious?
He asks a sage whether a fabulist writing after La Fontaine would not be wise to consign his work to the flames.
The fabulist who writes of Britannicus and Nero appeals to the few who know Roman history.
Fortune and theFabulist A Writer of Fables was passing through a lonely forest when he met a Fortune.
The Fabulist and the Animals A Wise and illustrious Writer of Fables was visiting a travelling menagerie with a view to collecting literary materials.
The absent-mindedness of our fabulist not unfrequently created much amusement on these occasions, and made him the object of mirthful conspiracies.
By her death, in 1693, our fabulist was left without a home; but his many friends vied with each other which should next furnish one.
The fabulist had not in him sufficient hypocrisy of which to manufacture the commonplace politeness of society.
Laurentius Abstemius, or Astemio, was an Italian fabulist of the fifteenth century.
La Fontaine was unquestionably the greatest fabulist of his or any other time, and he has been exceedingly popular throughout France.
The fabulist and his wife were so extravagant and careless in their habits, that in a very short time the property of La Fontaine was wasted away.
SOP, a celebrated Greek fabulist of the 6th century B.
Hence Æsop's fables are spoken of by Aristophanes as something laughable, and the fabulist came to be regarded as a humorist.
It is probable that some fabulist of the name of Æsop at one time existed, but we know nothing with certainty about his life, and many of the fables attributed to him were perhaps of older date.
It is known our fabulist was classically educated.
They said and did a good deal more before the opossum withdrew his cold and barren member from consideration; but the judicious fabulist does not encumber his tale with extraneous matter, lest it be pointless.
We miss the incredible element, the point of audacity with which the fabulist was wont to mock at his readers.
But the fabulist now seeks analogies where before he merely sought humorous situations.
It is as much as we can expect, if the fabulist shall prove a shrewd and cheerful fellow-wayfarer, one with whom the world does not seem to have gone much amiss, but who has yet laughingly learned something of its evil.
Scotch fabulist of some note in his day, was Professor of Natural Philosophy in St. Andrews University.
AEsop's countenance,' representing the fabulistas a man of sour visage, and intractable, but he goes no farther than that.
It is to Maximus Planudes, a Constantinople monk of the fourteenth century, nearly two thousand years after the time of AEsop, that the burlesque of the great fabulist is due.
Don Tomas de Yriarte, or Iriarte, a Spanish fabulist of the eighteenth century, born at Teneriffe in 1750, is held in much esteem by cultured readers in Spain.
The fabulist is to create a laugh, but yet, under a merry guise, to convey instruction.
Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.
Any one who remembers the infinite variety of La Fontaine will feel that Gay the fabulistis a writer whose work the world has let die very willingly indeed.
Gay thefabulist is only interesting in a certain sense and to a small extent.
The word fabulist was invented by La Fontaine, and has no equivalent either in the Greek or Latin languages.
The goodwill of the Academy was so decided, that, at the death of Colbert, it preferred the fabulist to Boileau, who had the support of the royal favour.
The consequence was, that Furetière pursued him with implacable animosity, and showered upon the head of the good old fabulist more than his share of epigrams, which were rather venomous than witty.
Many of us who loved French in early years have a warm corner in our hearts for "Numa Pompilius", but Florian will live as the second fabulist of France, to my own thinking twin of his forerunner.
As far as I know, no memorial has as yet been raised to the fabulist either at Quissac or at Sauve, but as long as the French language lasts successive generations will keep his memory green.
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