Fables, Ancient and Modern Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Fables, Ancient and Modern.
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“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
“She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense,
Sex to the last.”
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
“Chaucer followed nature every where, but was never so bold to go beyond her.”
“His promise Palamon accepts; but prayed
To keep it better than the first he made.”
“Pity is heaven's and your's; nor can she find
A throne so soft as in a woman's mind.”
“Fool, not to know, that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes,
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare.”
“Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.”
“Old as I am, for ladies love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.”
“He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.”
“The less had been our shame,
The less his counselled crime, which brands the Grecian name.”
“And that one hunting, which the Devil designed
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
“Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
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“The wrath of Peleus' son, O Muse, resound;
Whose dire effects the Grecian army found,
And many a hero, king, and hardy knight,
Were sent, in early youth, to shades of night.”
“I have found, by trial, Homer a more pleasing task than Virgil, though I say not the translation will be less laborious; for the Grecian is more according to my genius than the Latin poet.”