fables ancient and modern造句

• The frontispiece of William Godwin's " Fables Ancient and Modern " ( 1805 ) has a copperplate illustration of Aesop relating his stories to little children that gives his features a distinctly African appearance.
• William Godwin adapted the gist to a short story of " The Fly in the Mail Coach " in his " Fables Ancient and Modern " ( 1805 ), although otherwise seeming to draw more from L'Estrange than La Fontaine.
• In England there was Francis Cleyn's frontispiece to John Ogilby's " The Fables of Aesop " and the much later frontispiece to Godwin's " Fables Ancient and Modern " mentioned above in which the swarthy fabulist points out three of his characters to the children seated about him.
• John Dryden remarks in " Fables Ancient and Modern " ( 1700 ) that Chaucer had " some little Byas toward the Opinions of Wycliff . . . somewhat of which appears in the Tale of Piers Plowman [ an interesting conflation of Langland and pseudo-Chaucer ] : Yet I cannot blame him for inveighing so sharply against the Vices of the Clergy of his Age : Their Pride, their Ambition, their Pomp, their Avarice, their Worldly Interest, deserv'd the lashes which he gave them, both in that, and in most of his Canterbury Tales . " The phrase " inveighed . . . against the clergy " is possibly derived from Leland; similar synopses appear in the editions of Chaucer's " Works " starting with Thynne.