Apologue

Though he acknowledges the delicacy of criticizing the Soviet regime, Eliot's political objection was that the only good guy in Orwell's allegory seemed to be Trotsky, and he didn't like Trotsky: Now I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Professor Benfey, followed by Mr. Keith Falconer, discovers between the Æsopic and the Hindu apologue: — “In the former animals are allowed to act as animals: the latter makes them act as men in the form of animals.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

China, would for ever fix their literature — poetry, history and criticism,230 the apologue and the anecdote. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On this occasion, Campobasso gave his opinion, couched in the apologue of the Traveller, the Adder, and the Fox; and reminded the Duke of the advice which Reynard gave to the man, that he should crush his mortal enemy, now that chance had placed his fate at his disposal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His talk took on a sort of autumnal richness of colour, and assumed a new width of range; he now used pathos as well as humour and generally brought in a story or apologue to lend variety to the entertainment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At the time this apologue amused me; in the light of later events it assumed a tragic significance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A less sanguine tone marks the close of the apologue in which Reason and Truth, her daughter, take a triumphant journey in France and elsewhere, about the time of the accession of Turgot. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is an old saying, [2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[3835] Menenius Agrippa well satisfied the tumultuous rout of Rome, in his elegant apologue of the belly and the rest of the members. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We celebrate a national fable, an apologue we tell ourselves periodically to keep the myth of representative government alive. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is a fine apologue, that ancient fable of the first man who was at first destined to live twenty years at most, and who reduced it to five years by estimating one life with another. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When you came afterwards to think over one of those wonderful evenings when he had talked for hours, almost without interruption, you hardly found more than an epigram, a fugitive flash of critical insight, an apologue or pretty story charmingly told. ❋ Unknown (2007)

How does this most ancient apologue apply to the subject in hand? — the Dinner-giving Snob. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Before and since Mr. Franklin wrote his pretty apologue of the Whistle have we not all made bargains of which we repented, and coveted and acquired objects for which we have paid too dearly! ❋ Unknown (2006)

By way of an apologue for the aged, when they feel more than usually tempted to offer their advice, let me recommend the following little tale. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Perhaps he had not penetrated very deeply into the subject after all; but the story indicates right thinking, and may serve as an apologue to readers of this essay. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They had been heard, however, to observe that the famous incident of the Black Veil singularly resembled the ancient apologue of the Mountain in labour, so that they were unquestionably critics, as well as admirers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I have brought you back that cheap and wholesome apologue, in lieu of any of the Bethlehemite shells and beads. ❋ Unknown (2004)