(From The Baby’s Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and Printed in Colours By Edmund Evans. 1887. Via the LOC).
“The Lion in Love” (An Illustrated Fable)
(From The Baby’s Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and Printed in Colours By Edmund Evans. 1887. Via the LOC).
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Very good engraving. But I am disquieted by the text. Scary fable. A prime example of ‘the ends do not justify the means’. I am unsure if ‘like’ this or not. Charming drawing until the story depicted sinks in. Poor lion.
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Beautiful. From Isaiah. Meyer uses it in Twilight too.
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Love is a battefiellddddddddd
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