| Robert Sullivan - Education, Elementary - 1863 - 272 pages
...was in company with them one day when Goldsmith said, that he thought he could write a good fable, mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition...them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The ski]],' continued he, 'consists in making them talk like little fithes: While he indulged himself in... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...peculiarities. Talking of fables, Goldsmith observed that the animals introduced in them seldom talked in character. "For instance," said he, " the fable of the little fishes, who saw * The following is given by Boswell, as an instance of robust sophistry : — " Once, when I was pressing... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...talk with Johnson and Reynolds, spoke of the difficulty of fable-writing, and gave as an instance " Where my worn soul, each wandering hope at rest, May...my fellows blest. But where to find that happiest bads." While he was dilating on this and pointing out very earnestly that the skill consisted in "making... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English dramas - 1869 - 774 pages
...difficulty of fable-writing, and gave as an instance " the fable of the little fishes who saw bird: I a ؐ m> f n J > df ݑc +l'S \>жu -Ɛ̀ Y6#&E Z int> birds." While he was dilating on this and pointing out very earnestly that the skill consisted... | |
| Literature - 1870 - 444 pages
...Goldsmith were together one day, wlren the latter said that he thought he could write a good fable ; mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition...saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, pelitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill,' he continued, 'consists in nmking them talk... | |
| Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 pages
...peculiarities. Talking of fables, Goldsmith observed that the animals introduced in them seldom talked in character. " For instance," said he, " the fable...their heads, and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter to oe changed into birds. The skill consists in making them talk like little fishes." Just then observing... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...company with them one day, when Goldsmith said that he thought he could write a good fable, mentioning the simplicity which that kind of composition requires, and observed that in most fables the animals seldom talk in character. "For instance," said he, "the fable of the little fishes who saw birds fly... | |
| John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...day, when the latter said that he thought he could write a good fable; mentioned the simplicity .vhich that kind of composition requires; and observed that...petitioned "Jupiter to be changed into "birds. The skill," he continued, "consists in making them "talk like little fishes." At this point he observed Johnson... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...was in company with them one day, when GohUmith said, that he thought he could write a good fable, mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition...the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly ever their heads, and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill,' continued... | |
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