Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern

Name: Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
Author: Newbigging, Thomas

Newbigging, Thomas

Didactic literature -- History and criticism; Fables -- History and criticism

_Bull and Mouth, The_, 141

 Bussey, G. Moir, definition of fable by, 4;
   collection of fables, 130, 144


 Caxton's collection of fables, 60

 Characteristics of fables, 7

 Chilo, 34

 Cleobulus, 34

 Colling, Mary Maria, fables by, 128

 _Confession_, from the 'Gesta Romanorum,' 93

 Cotiæum in Phrygia, the supposed birthplace of Æsop, 33

 Cowper, William, combats Rousseau's views on fables, 27;
   his fables, 96, 127;
   _The Nightingale and the Glow-worm_, 136

 Crœsus, King of Lydia, 34

 Croxall, Dr. Samuel, 16, 59, 60, 61


 Davies, M.A., Rev. James, translator of Babrius, 67

 Definition of fable, 1

 Delphi, Æsop's mission to, 34;
   character of the Delphians, 34;
   their punishment for the murder of Æsop, 36;
   their expiation to a descendant of Idmon, 36

 Demarchus, Æsop's first master, 33

 Demetrius Phalereus, Æsop's fables collected by, 55, 61

 Diagoras, Æsop's fables collected by, 55

 Dodsley, Robert, definition of fable by, 3;
   on the morals and applications of fables, 17;
   reason why fables esteemed in all ages, 21;
   collection of fables, 60, 97, 108

 _Dog and the Crocodile, The_, 56

 Dryden's fables, 144


 _Eagle and the Beetle, The_, 35, 76

 Ebn Arabscah's collection of Arabian fables, 85

 _Elephant and the Fox, The_, 29

 Emblematical fables, 11

 English writers on fables, 62;
   English fabulists, 129

 Epigram, Agathia's, on Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39

 Epigrammatical character of Æsop's fables, 58

 Escurial Library, the, 85

 Eusebius, 35


 Fable, definition of, 1;
   in history and myth, 68

 Fable, writers on:
   Alsop, 62;
   Bayle, 66;
   Benfey, 61;
   Bentley, 62;
   Boissonade, 61;
   Boyle, 62;
   Crusius, 61;
   Davies, 67;
   Du Meril, 61;
   Ellis, 62;
   Fausboll, 61;
   Gaston Paris, 61;
   Gitlbauer, 61;
   Hervieux, 61;
   Jacobs, 62;
   James, 62;
   Jannelli, 61;
   Landsberger, 62;
   Lewis, 67;
   Mall, 61;
   Menas, 66;
   Meziriac, 61;
   Mueller, 61;
   Neveletus, 66;
   Oesterley, 61;
   Perotti, 61;
   Pithou, 61;
   Robert, 61;
   Rhys-Davids, 62;
   Rutherford, 62;
   Townsend, 62;
   Tyrwhitt, 62;
   Vavassor, 66;
   Wase, 62

 Fables, characteristics of, 7;
   morals of, 7;
   rational, emblematical, and mixed, 11;
   La Fontaine on, 13;
   Montaigne on Æsop's, 14;
   Rousseau on, 25, 27;
   Cowper on, 27;
   Plato advises the use of, 26;
   Aristotle on, 68;
   in Holy Scripture, 54

 Fables, collections of Æsopian:
   Accursius, 59;
   Aldus, 59;
   Avienus, 55;
   Babrius, 55;
   Caxton, 60;
   Croxall, 59;
   Diagoras, 55;
   Dodsley, 60;
   Faerno, 59;
   James, 60;
   L'Estrange, 59;
   Neveletus, 59;
   Ogilby, 60;
   Phædrus, 55;
   Phalereus, 55;
   Planudes, 37;
   Stephens, 59;
   Willans, 60

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Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern

Newbigging, Thomas

Didactic literature -- History and criticism; Fables -- History and criticism

_Bull and Mouth, The_, 141

 Bussey, G. Moir, definition of fable by, 4;
   collection of fables, 130, 144


 Caxton's collection of fables, 60

 Characteristics of fables, 7

 Chilo, 34

 Cleobulus, 34

 Colling, Mary Maria, fables by, 128

 _Confession_, from the 'Gesta Romanorum,' 93

 Cotiæum in Phrygia, the supposed birthplace of Æsop, 33

 Cowper, William, combats Rousseau's views on fables, 27;
   his fables, 96, 127;
   _The Nightingale and the Glow-worm_, 136

 Crœsus, King of Lydia, 34

 Croxall, Dr. Samuel, 16, 59, 60, 61


 Davies, M.A., Rev. James, translator of Babrius, 67

 Definition of fable, 1

 Delphi, Æsop's mission to, 34;
   character of the Delphians, 34;
   their punishment for the murder of Æsop, 36;
   their expiation to a descendant of Idmon, 36

 Demarchus, Æsop's first master, 33

 Demetrius Phalereus, Æsop's fables collected by, 55, 61

 Diagoras, Æsop's fables collected by, 55

 Dodsley, Robert, definition of fable by, 3;
   on the morals and applications of fables, 17;
   reason why fables esteemed in all ages, 21;
   collection of fables, 60, 97, 108

 _Dog and the Crocodile, The_, 56

 Dryden's fables, 144


 _Eagle and the Beetle, The_, 35, 76

 Ebn Arabscah's collection of Arabian fables, 85

 _Elephant and the Fox, The_, 29

 Emblematical fables, 11

 English writers on fables, 62;
   English fabulists, 129

 Epigram, Agathia's, on Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39

 Epigrammatical character of Æsop's fables, 58

 Escurial Library, the, 85

 Eusebius, 35


 Fable, definition of, 1;
   in history and myth, 68

 Fable, writers on:
   Alsop, 62;
   Bayle, 66;
   Benfey, 61;
   Bentley, 62;
   Boissonade, 61;
   Boyle, 62;
   Crusius, 61;
   Davies, 67;
   Du Meril, 61;
   Ellis, 62;
   Fausboll, 61;
   Gaston Paris, 61;
   Gitlbauer, 61;
   Hervieux, 61;
   Jacobs, 62;
   James, 62;
   Jannelli, 61;
   Landsberger, 62;
   Lewis, 67;
   Mall, 61;
   Menas, 66;
   Meziriac, 61;
   Mueller, 61;
   Neveletus, 66;
   Oesterley, 61;
   Perotti, 61;
   Pithou, 61;
   Robert, 61;
   Rhys-Davids, 62;
   Rutherford, 62;
   Townsend, 62;
   Tyrwhitt, 62;
   Vavassor, 66;
   Wase, 62

 Fables, characteristics of, 7;
   morals of, 7;
   rational, emblematical, and mixed, 11;
   La Fontaine on, 13;
   Montaigne on Æsop's, 14;
   Rousseau on, 25, 27;
   Cowper on, 27;
   Plato advises the use of, 26;
   Aristotle on, 68;
   in Holy Scripture, 54

 Fables, collections of Æsopian:
   Accursius, 59;
   Aldus, 59;
   Avienus, 55;
   Babrius, 55;
   Caxton, 60;
   Croxall, 59;
   Diagoras, 55;
   Dodsley, 60;
   Faerno, 59;
   James, 60;
   L'Estrange, 59;
   Neveletus, 59;
   Ogilby, 60;
   Phædrus, 55;
   Phalereus, 55;
   Planudes, 37;
   Stephens, 59;
   Willans, 60

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