 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 Seiten
...WORDSWORTH. ANIMATE NATURE. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. 'T is clear that they were always able To hold discourse — at least in fable. Pairing Time Anticipated. CowPER. Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The Village Curate.... | |
 | Mark Loveridge - 1998 - 308 Seiten
...Cowper's charming subtranslational joke at the start of his fable 'Pairing Time Anticipated' (1792): I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If Birds confabulate...were always able To hold discourse at least in fable. (Cowper 1980-95: 3, 51) 'This term [fable] originally referred to the stories whose task it was to... | |
 | Jean de La Fontaine - 2000 - 256 Seiten
...they were only vehicles of deception (animals don't talk and reason!): I shall not ask Jean-Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Tis clear, that...always able To hold discourse, at least in fable; And e'en a child who knows no better Than to interpret, by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 Seiten
...and reason to dumb animals ought to be withheld from children, as being only vehicles of deception. I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate...always able To hold discourse — at least in fable. Cowper, Pairing- Time Anticipated (1782). Roustam or Rostam, the Persian Hercules. He was the son of... | |
 | Jean La Fontaine - 2010 - 504 Seiten
...to hear beast-fables, because they were only vehicles of deception (animals don't talk and reason!): I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate...always able To hold discourse, at least in fable; And e'en the child who knows no better Than to interpret, by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | 1859 - 636 Seiten
...And Cowper thus commences his Fable, "Pairing Time anticipated :" — " I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear,...they were always able To hold discourse, at least infabU; And even the child who knows no better Than to interpret, by the letter, A story of a cock... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 Seiten
...WORDSWORTH. ANIMATE NATURE. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Eousseau If birds confabulate or no. 'T is RT BURNS. THE KISS, DEAR Pairing Time Anticipated. COWPER. Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The Village Curate.... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1915 - 242 Seiten
...held that such tales weakened the regard for truth in the young; — an opinion ridiculed by Cowper : 'I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.' 14. seeing Thebes written in great Letters upon an oide doore. This refers to a state of things before... | |
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I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,* If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear, that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable ; And e'en the child, who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... 
