id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433074855531 Gay, John The fables of John Gay illustrated. With an original memoir, introduction, and annotations, by Octavius Freire Owen ... With one hundred and twenty-six drawings by William Harvey, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. 1857 .txt text/plain 37444 3588 88 glass, presents to each original, the fabled personification of his own vice, and like an awkward swordsman, he suddenly finds himself wounded by the Johnson's opinion seems hardly given with his usual judgment, for whilst stating that it is not likely to do good, he where true happiness is placed, where all our cares must end, and what little The man that would be thought a friend, like flattery."—Rowe. the poor man's healthy relish of food, let him set against it the latter's constrained self-denial: the pauper craves wealth, instead of contemplating the cares fortune, and not man's nature * One of the most affecting incidents in the life of the real nature of vice and virtue, as they do the powers of certain half-known for his success, like the painter in the fable, upon the vanity of the world, draws "Know," says the Man, "tho' proud in place, He hears and bears it like a man; ./cache/nyp.33433074855531.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433074855531.txt