93 Verbs to Use for the Word fables

For, if we may tell a beautiful fable, it is well worth hearing, Simmias, what kind the things are on the earth beneath the heavens.

The systems of the East and of the North, of Egypt and of China, would have illustrated the Greek and Roman fables, have cleared up their difficulties, and explained their allegories.

This MS. contains only sixty-one fables.

Herodotus cites the names of a number of people who inhabited North Africa, mostly confining himself to repeat the fables or the more interesting facts, of which they were the object.

And he who desires to signify divine concerns through symbols is Orphic, and, in short, accords with those who write fables respecting the gods.

Well, mistress, well; I have read Aesop's fables, And know your moral meaning well enough.

He apparently believed all the fables of H.'s birth, &c. Those notes of Bryant have caused the greatest disorder in my brain-pan.

And again in the Gorgias, he relates the fable concerning the three fabricators, and their demiurgic allotment.

She could invent a fable which would satisfy his ready credulity without compromising her father.

He even gives the ancient fable of the Amazons, whom he represents as an existing female nation.

"Fables," continues the shrewd master of those who know, "have this advantage that, while historical parallels are hard to find, it is comparatively easy to find fables."

I am inclined to set down the events of my little world for the past week; that in days to come, should it prove that I have been following "cunningly devised fables," I may beware of such entanglements again; and that if they be found a guidance from above, their contemptibleness and seeming folly may be shown to be in wisdom.

He remembered the fable of the different methods employed by the north wind and the sun to make a man lay aside an ugly cloak.

" Again, since Plato employs fables, let us in the first place consider whence the ancients were induced to devise fables, and in the second place, what the difference is between the fables of philosophers and those of poets.

And I have taken all my fables about the celestial nature of women from the perfection my imagination created in her.

On his return, she suspended her hair in the temple of the war-god, but it was stolen the first night, and Conon of Samos told the king that the winds had carried it to heaven, where it still forms the seven stars near the tail of Leo, called Coma Berenices. Pope, in his Rape of the Lock, has borrowed this fable to account for the lock of hair cut from Belinda's head, the restoration of which the young lady insisted upon.

Marmontel has written a tale called Belisaire, which has helped to perpetuate these fables, originally invented by Tzetzês or Caesios, a Greek poet, born at Constantinople in 1120.

The Part of Ulysses in Homers Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle, [10] as perplexing that Fable with very agreeable Plots and Intricacies, not only by the many Adventures in his Voyage, and the Subtility of his Behaviour, but by the various Concealments and Discoveries of his Person in several Parts of that Poem.

The first that thought of forming comick fables were Epicharmus and Phormys, and, consequently, this manner came from Sicily.

To this he would have added other fables.

" Again, since Plato employs fables, let us in the first place consider whence the ancients were induced to devise fables, and in the second place, what the difference is between the fables of philosophers and those of poets.

The Poet to shew the like Changes in Nature, as well as to grace his Fable with a noble Prodigy, represents the Sun in an Eclipse.

"St. Paul admonishes Timothy to refuse old-wives'- fables.

To the left is the Seraglio Point, or superb palace of the Sultan, whose treasures almost realize the fables of romance.

" "Indeed, Socrates," said Simmias, "we should be very glad to hear that fable.

93 Verbs to Use for the Word  fables