Samuel Croxall (c. 1688/9 – 1752) was an Anglican churchman, writer and translator, particularly noted for his edition of Aesop's Fables. Samuel Croxall...

fable's moral is the proverbial "the more haste, the worse speed" (Samuel Croxall) or have applied to it the biblical observation that "the race is not...

the young. However, when dealing with the moral behaviour of adults, Samuel Croxall asks, referencing political alarmism, "when we are alarmed with imaginary...

L'Estrange (1692) collections include both versions of the fable, as does Samuel Croxall (1721). He, however, reads into the story a lesson on lack of judgment...

will rather eat nothing itself than not to starve those that would." Samuel Croxall echoes L'Estrange's observation in Fables of Aesop and Others (1722)...

its moral and practical meaning. The first of such works is Reverend Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop and Others, newly done into English with an Application...

itself' (Joseph Jacobs, 1894) and 'Much wants more and loses all' (Samuel Croxall, 1722). It is notable also that these are stories told of a goose rather...

Humour, the Nature, and the Disposition of those we have to do withal." Samuel Croxall also featured it in 1722 under the title of "The Collier and the Fuller"...

in the verse paraphrase of John Ogilby; in the prose collections of Samuel Croxall and Thomas Bewick; and the poetical version of Brooke Boothby. The Dutch...

reall actions prop, Like crazy Structures, Straight to Ruin drop. Samuel Croxall's 1722 commentary on the fable is generalised to the advice that "we...