Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others.: In three parts. 1. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. 2. Fables with reflections in prose and verse. 3. Fables in verse.

Name: Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others.: In three parts. 1. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. 2. Fables with reflections in prose and verse. 3. Fables in verse.
Author: Aesop

Aesop · 1764

“Is not the earth With various living creatures, and the air Replenished, and all those at thy command To come and play before thee? Knowest thou not Their language and their ways? They also know, And reason not contemptibly: with these Find pastime.”—_Paradise Lost_, b. viii. l. 370. _The above appeared on the titles of both the 1776 and 1784 editions of_ “SELECT FABLES,” _T. Saint, Newcastle-upon-Tyne_.…

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