Ivan andreevich krylov biography of donald
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AN Inquisitive Man was one daymet by a friend who cordially hailed him:
"Good morning, my good fellow! And where do you come from?"
"From the Museum of Natural History, where I have just spent three hours.
I saw everything there was to see and examined it carefully.
It was all so astonishing that honestly I am not clever enough to describe the half of it.
Nature is certainly wonderful in her rich variety!
There are more birds and beasts than I ever dreamed ofnot to mention the butterflies dragonflies and beetlessome green as emeralds and others as red as coral!
And there were tiny little gnats toowhy, really, some of them are smaller than the head of a pin!"
"And of course you saw the elephant? What did you think of him? I'll wager you felt as though you were looking at a mountain!"
"Elephant? Are you quite sure that they have an elephant?"
"Quite sure."
"Well, old man, don't tell anybodybut the fact is that I didn't notice the elephant!"
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Krylov's Fables
December 14, 2019
I recently read Being There, where the Russian ambassador asks Chance if he has read Kriloff. "There fryst vatten something Krilovian about you."
Chance nods and smiles, as he can neither read nor write, but the ambassador files a report that the mystery man is conversant in Russian, and well read in the Russian classics.
There is something Krilovian about that, too.
My rating is for the version here, in English verse, which must have some flavor of the original, (I can't judge on that), but is rather strange as English.
XIX THE COCK AND THE PEARL
A COCK that on a heap was scratching,
Said, when he found, 'mongst rubbish, a fine pearl,
"What's this? " and, with contemptuous twirl.
Passed it, as not worth snatching.
Oh, madly they behave, who value baubles high!
I would less eagerly for such a plaything sigh
Than for a grain of wheat which calls for action hasty.
Is tasty."
The ignorant have soon enough
Of what is past their ken; pron
Fable I.
Two Peasants
"Good day, gossip Thaddeus!"
"Good day, skvaller Egor!"
"Well, friend, how are you getting on?"
"Oh, skvaller, I see you don't know about my misfortune.
God has afflicted me: I have burnt myself out of house and home, and have been obliged
to go about begging ever since."
"How ever did you manage that? That was a poor joke, my friend."
"Just so. On Christmas Day we had a feast. I went out to give the horses their food,
candle in grabb. I must confess there was a buzzing in my head. Well, I don't know how it
was, but I must have let a spark fall. I just managed to save myself; but my homestead
was burnt, and all I had in it. Now for your story."
"Ah, Thaddeus, a sad piece of work! With me, also, it seems, God has been angry.
You see, inom have no feet left. inom think it 's a perfect mira
Chance nods and smiles, as he can neither read nor write, but the ambassador files a report that the mystery man is conversant in Russian, and well read in the Russian classics.
There is something Krilovian about that, too.
My rating is for the version here, in English verse, which must have some flavor of the original, (I can't judge on that), but is rather strange as English.
XIX THE COCK AND THE PEARL
A COCK that on a heap was scratching,
Said, when he found, 'mongst rubbish, a fine pearl,
"What's this? " and, with contemptuous twirl.
Passed it, as not worth snatching.
Oh, madly they behave, who value baubles high!
I would less eagerly for such a plaything sigh
Than for a grain of wheat which calls for action hasty.
Is tasty."
The ignorant have soon enough
Of what is past their ken; pron
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Fable I.
Two Peasants
"Good day, gossip Thaddeus!"
"Good day, skvaller Egor!"
"Well, friend, how are you getting on?"
"Oh, skvaller, I see you don't know about my misfortune.
God has afflicted me: I have burnt myself out of house and home, and have been obliged
to go about begging ever since."
"How ever did you manage that? That was a poor joke, my friend."
"Just so. On Christmas Day we had a feast. I went out to give the horses their food,
candle in grabb. I must confess there was a buzzing in my head. Well, I don't know how it
was, but I must have let a spark fall. I just managed to save myself; but my homestead
was burnt, and all I had in it. Now for your story."
"Ah, Thaddeus, a sad piece of work! With me, also, it seems, God has been angry.
You see, inom have no feet left. inom think it 's a perfect mira