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A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...
The Frog and the Mouse (La grenouille et le rat, IV.11) The Fox and the Stork (Le renard et la cigogne, I.18) The Frog and the Ox (La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf, I.3) The Frogs Who Desired a King (Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi, III.4) The Girl (La Fille, VII.5), see under The Heron and the Fish
The first to do so was the royalist John Ogilby, adding the fable to his 1665 edition, coupled with an illustration by Wenceslas Hollar of frogs demonstrating against the background of the Amsterdam Town Hall. According to this interpretation, the Republic was ungratefully throwing over its former ally who (in its own view, at least) had helped ...
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The fable was also adapted by John Hawkesworth into his reflective political poem, "The Danger of trusting Individuals with exorbitant Power". [9] In that, the king of the doves prays to Jove for help against a marauding kite and is changed in form to a more powerful bird of prey. After his victory, however, the king becomes an even worse ...
"The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books. The best-known volumes of the series are the 12 Fairy Books, each of which is distinguished by its own color.
Perry 43. Two Frogs Perry 44. The Frogs ask Zeus for a King. Perry 45. The Oxen and the Squeaking-Axle. Perry 46. The North Wind and the Sun. Perry 47. The Boy with the Stomach-Ache Perry 48. The Nightingale and the Bat Perry 49. The Herdsman who lost a Calf Perry 50. The Weasel and Aphrodite. Perry 51. The Farmer and the Snake. Perry 52. The ...
He made Le mariage de Babylas (Midnight Wedding), L'épouvantail (The Scarecrow, 1921 ), Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi (alternately called Frogland and The Frogs Who Wanted a King, 1922), Amour noir et blanc (Love in Black and White, 1923), La voix du rossignol (The Voice of the Nightingale, 1923) and La petite chateuse des rues (The ...