73 Metaphors for tales

The Winter's Tale and The Tempest are the best of his later plays; but they all show a falling off from his previous work, and indicate a second period of experimentation with the taste of a fickle public.

Of these the tales of Aesop are the best examples.

The whole tale, though short, is a triumph of art and abounds with acute observations of human nature.

The weeping tale of her, his heart ador'd, Wak'd the quick wrath of her deluded lord; Sternly he menac'd some disastrous end By fire or cord, should soon that wretch attend, And straight dispatched three barons bold to bring The culprit to the presence of his king.

I find any number of all but superannuated men and women here, whose tales of the former grandeur of the estate and family are like things one reads of in novels.

His tales are my constant companions.

Recognizing that the whole tale is a parable, which takes upon it purely legendary drapery, and ridding ourselves thus of all the questions which puzzle Sunday-school scholars and theologians, we are ready to read the meaning of the parable.

In substance the tale is simply a mosaic of romantic adventures, though some of the hero's wanderings in the desert after being marooned by pirates and especially his encounter with the "tyger" sound like a faint echo of "Captain Singleton" or of Captain John Smith's "True Travels.

To this the Austrians answered, "that the character of the queen and duke was too well known not to destroy the force of such an accusation; that the tale of the confession was an imposture, and that no such attempt was ever made.

For his day these tales were a great work of art, evidently written with great care.

But Homer occurred; and the tales of Troy and Odysseus became incomparable poetry.

The tale of Jason and Æêtês is a repetition of that of Cadmus.

Prethee peace: If thou knewst how ill favouredly thy tale becomes thee, And what ill root it takes Ant.

" "Fairy-land!" ejaculated Fred, with a slight look of contempt; "do you know since I came to this part of the world, I've come to the conclusion that fairy tales are all stuff, and very inferior stuff too!

thou art not Bartolo; thy tale is a wicked deception, invented to shield thee from the punishment due to thy crime!"

En ernudder thing w'at proves de tale 'bout dis ole Primus is de way he goes on ef anybody ax' him how he come by dat club-foot.

so well that A Tale of Two Cities is an excellent supplement to the history of the period.

All the same, I cannot help thinking that Mr. STUART has overcrowded his canvas, and that his tale would be the better for the removal of a few of his plotters and counter-plotters from it.

A metrical tale is a narrative poem somewhat simpler and shorter than the metrical romance, but more complex than the ballad.

No wonder that their tales, novels, and dramas became in many cases editorials to stimulate and guide public thought and feeling in one direction or another.

The tale of each day's journey now becomes a dreary record of travels across a monotonous barren country, and an incessant search for native wells, their only means of sustaining life.

To us it is very much as if Ivanhoe were made out to be an allegory of incidents in the French Revolution; or as if the 'tale of Troy divine' were, not a nature-myth or Euemeristic legend of long past ages, but a symbolical representation of events under the Pisistratidae.

"The Tale of the Three Kingdoms" became the model for countless historical novels of its own and subsequent periods.

Some may say the tale of Venus loving Mars is a fable, but he that is a true soldier and a Gent.

I am told that this is a fact, that it has happened more than fifty times at Montmartre, Batignolles, and Belleville; yet I will not believe it.[50] I prefer to believe that these tales are "inventions of Versailles" than to admit the possibility of such infamy.

73 Metaphors for  tales