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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
"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes.
The frogs, disorganized and directionless, asked the god Jupiter for a king. So the gods threw down a log into the water. This log king was amiable and supported the frogs in their lounging. The young frogs, knowing nothing but the time of the log, sat upon the log and croaked to Jupiter about theirs woes with the government.
The strong likelihood that Henryson employed Christian numerology in composing his works has been increasingly discussed in recent years. [4] [5] Use of number for compositional control was common in medieval poetics and could be intended to have religious symbolism, and features in the accepted text of the Morall Fabilliis indicate that this was elaborately applied in that poem.
The Frogs who Begged for a Tsar (III.4) The Man and the Lion (III.10) The Animals Sick of the Plague (VII.1) The Two Pigeons (IX.2) 1811. The Young Crow (who wanted to imitate the eagle in La Fontaine, II.16) Gout and the spider (III.8) The Banker and the Cobbler (VIII.2) 1816. The Wolf and the Crane (III.9) The Mistress and her Two Maids (V.6 ...
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There the fox is accompanied by two storks, one of which has a frog in its beak – in reference to the fable of The Frogs Who Desired a King. [18] In the contemporary fountain sculpture by the Catalan Eduard Batiste Alentorn (1855–1920) in Barcelona's Parc de la Ciutadella , the frustrated fox kicks over the tall vessel, from which the ...