Fifty One Original Fables With Morals And Ethical Index
Fifty One Original Fables With Morals And Ethical Index
J Jonathan Birch
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THE TULIP AND THE LAVENDER. A Tulip, which unexpectedly brake into the most beautiful, defined, and varied colours, was re- moved by the Florist into a conspicuous part of his Garden, and named "The admirable !" for admi- ration was indeed felt by all who beheld her : to retain their worship she spared neither pains nor ex- pense to prolong her charms. She engaged a But- terfly, an exquisite in the art of painting, to retint, where the weather, or honey-searching Bee, had occa- sioned a blemish.... Not contented with the just praises of the wise, and the flatteries of the silly, so vain did she become of her fancied perfection, that a second Butterfly was engaged to report the real or pretended adoration of Foreign courts, whither she imagined her unprecedented celebrity had extended. Vanity was now coupled with the still more perni- cious passion " Pride" and its usual attendant " Haugh- tiness. " She wondered that a plant of Lavender that grew some distance off "should dare intrude itself within view of her nobility !" At length, maugre the Converzatione and Painter butterflies, signs of decay appeared : the vivid colours became less and less brilliant : the leaves lost their elasticity and became spread, and the fine proportioned cup was no longer compact !
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