Die fabeln John Gays

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Seite cxvi - Go, rose, my Chloe's bosom grace ! How happy should I prove, Might I supply that envied place With never-fading love ! There, phoenix-like, beneath her eye, Involved in fragrance, burn and die ! Know, hapless flower, that thou shalt find More fragrant roses there, I see thy withering head reclined With envy and despair : One common fate we both must prove, You die with envy, I with love.
Seite xc - Though this is a kind of writing that appears very easy, I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook. After I have invented one fable, and finished it, I despair of finding out another ; but I have a moral or two more, which I wish to write upon.
Seite cxix - Il se réjouissait à l'odeur de la viande Mise en menus morceaux, et qu'il croyait friande. On servit, pour l'embarrasser, En un vase à long col et d'étroite embouchure. Le bec de la cigogne y pouvait bien passer ; Mais le museau du sire était d'autre mesure. Il lui fallut à jeun retourner au logis, Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris, Serrant la queue, et portant bas l'oreille.
Seite cxix - His now-forgotten friend, a snail, Beneath his house, with slimy trail Crawls o'er the grass; whom when he spies, In wrath he to the gard'ner cries: 'What means yon peasant's daily toil, From choking weeds to rid the soil?
Seite cxix - Such is the country maiden's fright, When first a Red-coat is in sight; Behind the door she hides her face, Next time at distance eyes the lace : She now can all his terrors stand, Nor from his squeeze withdraws her hand.
Seite lxxxii - HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY From the Collection of the Writings of the Poet JOHN GAY 1685-1732 Made by ERNEST LEWIS GAY of the Class 0^1897 Given to the Library in fulfillment of his Desires by his Nephew GEORGE HENRY GAY, June, 1927 Wi Ore T See 3J. E - /;; ,'/,'• t' i: ://•:,
Seite cxix - Where, sir, is all this dainty cheer? Nor turkey, goose, nor hen, is here. These are the phantoms of your brain, And your sons lick their lips in vain.
Seite cxix - We bear no terror in our eyes ; Yet think us not of soul so tame, Which no repeated wrongs inflame ; Insensible of ev'ry ill, Because we want thy tusks to kill.
Seite cix - is not the first of Mr. Gay's works, wherein he has been faulty with regard to courtiers and statesmen. For, to omit his other pieces, even in his ' Fables,' published within two years past, and dedicated to the Duke of Cumberland, for which he was promised a reward, he has been thought somewhat too bold upon the courtiers.
Seite xciv - Now weigh the pleasure with the pain, The plus and minus, loss and gain ; And what La Fontaine laughing says, Is serious truth in such a case : € Who slights the evil, finds it least; And who does nothing, does the best.

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