the hawk and the nightingale造句

• Still another of Aesop's fables, The fisherman and the little fish, draws much the same conclusion as later European variants of " The Hawk and the Nightingale ".
• The conclusion of " The fisherman and the little fish " then appears to have been transferred to " The Hawk and the Nightingale " as if it were illustrating the popular proverb with its references to birds.
• The 152 poems there were grouped by subject, with sometimes more than one devoted to the same fable, although presenting alternative versions of it, as in the case of The Hawk and the Nightingale ( 133-5 ).
• The popularity of the fable in England was eventually overtaken by the similar story " The Hawk and the Nightingale ", which had the advantage of being reinforced by the proverb " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ".
• Fables of older date are equally laid under contribution by Krylov . The Hawk and the Nightingale is transposed into a satire on censorship in " The Cat and the Nightingale " The nightingale is captured by a cat so that it can hear its famous song, but the bird is too terrified to sing.