Fable
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
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Works & expressions
Fable
The Goods and the Ills
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Proverb
The grace of God is gear enough
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Poetry
The Grasshopper
The poem addresses a grasshopper swinging on an oat-beard, drunk nightly on dew, owner of earth and air by turns, who retires to a carved acorn-bed and wakes to greet the sun and make men merry.
Fable
The Grasshopper and the Owl
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Proverb
The greatest barkers bite not sorest.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
The greedy man and the gileynoar [cheat] are soon agreed.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
The happy [lucky] man canna be harried.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
The hardest step is over the threshold.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Fable
The Hare and the Hound
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hare and the Tortoise
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hares and the Foxes
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hares and the Frogs
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hares and the Lions
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hart and the Vine
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hawk and the Nightingale
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Proverb
The heart knoweth its own bitterness.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Fable
The Heifer and the Ox
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hen and the Golden Eggs
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
The Hen and the Swallow
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Proverb
The hen's egg aft gaes to the ha' To bring the guse's egg awa'.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Fable
The Herdsman and the Lost Bull
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.