Des Freyherrn von Holbergs Moralische Fabeln mit beygefügten Erklärungen einer jeden Fabel, aus dem Dänischen übersetzt

Title

en_US Des Freyherrn von Holbergs Moralische Fabeln mit beygefügten Erklärungen einer jeden Fabel, aus dem Dänischen übersetzt

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Neue verbesserte Auflage

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Creator

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Date

2025-05-20T17:10:36Z

Good copy: 2 /25

en_US 1769

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1769

Abstract

en_US What a wonderful gift! 232 fables on 256 pages, as the closing T of C makes clear. There is a title-vignette and three printers designs before the two introductions (by the translator and the writer) and before the first fable. I tried the first three fables and found them engaging. In the first, an ass thinks he deserves the music prize. An owl comforts him by saying that he was similarly despised. “We live in times where virtue and skill are no longer respected.” In the second, a mother eagle steals some young foxes as food for her young but admonishes them not yet to eat them. “Let them grow and put on a bit more meat.” The mother goes away for some time and returns to find out that the foxes have indeed grown and bitten and consumed some of her young eagles. We can hurt ourselves by overcarefulness. The third presents a monkey who inherits a great deal and gets himself a golden coach and golden robes and stands atop a hill so all can see him. An animal goes by and comments “All this pomp only makes your ugliness more noticeable. Quo altior es, so turpior.” 4” x 6¾”.

Identifier

en_US 13689 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/158043

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Johann Christoph Korte

en_US Flensburg

Subject

Ludvig von Holberg See all items with this value