Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern

About this eBook

Author

Newbigging, Thomas, 1833-1914

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Produced by David Edwards, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Didactic literature -- History and criticism

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Text

eBook-No.

42761

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42761

Release Date

May 21, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FABLES AND FABULISTS. — FABLES AND FABULISTS: ANCIENT AND MODERN .
2. 2.BY THOMAS NEWBIGGING, Author of 'The History of the Forest of Rossendale,' 'Old Gamul,' etc.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — FABLES AND FABULISTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I. DEFINITION OF FABLE. — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.CHAPTER II. CHARACTERISTICS OF FABLES. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE MORAL AND APPLICATION OF FABLES. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. FABULISTS AS CENSORS. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER V. LESSONS TAUGHT BY FABLES. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. ÆSOP. — ' To Lysippus. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. STORIES RELATED OF ÆSOP. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. THE ÆSOPIAN FABLES. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. PHÆDRUS AND BABRIUS. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER X. THE FABLE IN HISTORY AND MYTH. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. HINDOO, ARABIAN, AND PERSIAN FABLES.—PILPAY, LOCMAN.—THE 'GESTA ROMANORUM.' — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. MODERN FABULISTS: LA FONTAINE, GAY. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. MODERN FABULISTS: DODSLEY, NORTHCOTE. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. MODERN FABULISTS: LESSING, YRIARTE, KRILOF. — ' The Two Thrushes. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER XV. OTHER AND OCCASIONAL FABULISTS. — The Farmer, Horseman, and Pedestrian (Nivernois). — The Beau and Butterfly (Francis Gentleman). — The Nightingale and Glow-worm (Edward Moore). — The Nightingale and Glow-worm. — The Boy and the Rainbow (William Wilkie, D.D.). — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.INDEX.

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