单词 | fable-book |
释义 | > as lemmasfable-book C1. attributive, as fable-book, fable-forge, †fable-lesynge, fable-poem, fable-poetry, fable-tale, fable-type. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 421 Varro telleþ nouȝt a fable lesynge. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 118 And therefore smile I at those Fable-Forges. 1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. vii. 55 Niger..who tells us a fabile tale. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. ii. xv. 208 Fable books used for the initiation of children in reading. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats vi. 111 A new kind of fable-poetry which avoids becoming allegory. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats vi. 111 The fable-poems..are dry, unromantic pieces. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats ix. 192 In the plays..fable-types, who correspond to the beggars and fools and hermits of the lyrics. < as lemmas |
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