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... fables and the fables of Bidpai . Some of the Aesopic fables had been translated into English as early as the twelfth century ; but the great German collection , compiled about 1480 by Heinrich Stainhöwel , was introduced into England ...
... fables and the fables of Bidpai . Some of the Aesopic fables had been translated into English as early as the twelfth century ; but the great German collection , compiled about 1480 by Heinrich Stainhöwel , was introduced into England ...
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... fables have the same ideas associated with them that Aristotle , Pliny , and the other writers on natural history applied to them . Indeed , both Aristotle and Pliny cited Aesop as one of their authorities . Both in the fables and in ...
... fables have the same ideas associated with them that Aristotle , Pliny , and the other writers on natural history applied to them . Indeed , both Aristotle and Pliny cited Aesop as one of their authorities . Both in the fables and in ...
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... fables which , like the previously described incidents of the pastoral romances , deserve special consideration because of their possible significance beyond the stories themselves . The two fables together constitute Nashe's " praise ...
... fables which , like the previously described incidents of the pastoral romances , deserve special consideration because of their possible significance beyond the stories themselves . The two fables together constitute Nashe's " praise ...
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