Select Fables of Esop And Other Fabulists : in Three Books
Select Fables of Esop And Other Fabulists : in Three Books
Dodsley Robert
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The lUi-bre^ qnd fbf Sparrow. AS a Red-^reaft.was finging on a tree by the fide of a niral cottage, a Spar- row perched upon the thatch took occaiioa thus, to xeprimand him. And doft ibmj biAhc^ with thy dull autumnal note, pirefamr to emulate the Bird^ of Spring ? Can ^^ij^eak warblings pretend to vie with the ^[uightly, accents of the Thruih and the ^ackbir4? with the various melody of the Lark or the Nightingale ? whom other birds far tfy faperiorS) have been long content to admire 134 ORIGI...NAL FABLES, admire in filence. Judge with candour at leaft, replied the Robin J nor impute thofe ef- forts to ambition folely, which may fometimes flow; from Love^ of the Art. I reverence Indeed^ but by iio means enyy) the birds whpfe fame has f);oo4 the teft of ages. Their fongs have charmed both hill and dale; but their feafon is paft, and their throats are filent. I feel not, however, the ambition to furpafs or_equal theiii r*^ iny effdfts are of a much humbler na- ture 5 and I may furely hope for pardon, while I endeavour to ^hear thefe forfaken valleys, by an attempt to inutah thejtrains Hove.
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