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The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.
The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable.
I regaled the devil; he gave me a fable.
Every fable ends up with a moral.
It's a fable.
Tom doesn't know the difference between a fable and a fairytale.
On another occasion they delighted themselves with listening to a dove cooing in the neighbouring wood, and upon Chloe inquiring what the bird meant by its note, Daphnis told her the well-known fable which is related to all who ask that question.
Daphnis and Chloe were delighted, but they regarded what they heard as a fable rather than as fact; and they inquired of Philetas, who and what this Love could be? Whether he was a boy or a bird? And what powers he could exert?
What's the difference between a fable and a fairytale?
This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch you!"
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But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.
[…]we grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men.
For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;
He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.
Vain now the Tales which fab’ling Poets tell, / That wav’ring Conqueſt ſtill deſires to rove; / In Marlbrô’s Camp the Goddeſs knows to dwell: / Long as the Hero’s Life remains her Love.
1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50, He fables, yet speaks truth.
[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]
THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […]
Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.
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