Homiletical illustrations
Here are entered collections of brief stories intended to be used as illustrations within sermons. Sermons in story form for adults are entered under Story sermons. Sermons for children are entered under Children's sermons.
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:Used for:- Catechetical illustrations
- Illustrations, Homiletical
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Moody's Anecdotes and Illustrations, Related in His Revival Work by the Great Evangelist (revised edition; Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Pub. Co., 1899), by Dwight Lyman Moody, ed. by J. B. McClure (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and Word)- A Box of Nails for Busy Christian Workers: Bible Readings and Outline Addresses (fourth edition; London: H. R. Allenson, 1906), by C. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Incidental Illustrations of the Economy of Salvation, Its Doctrines and Duties (Toronto: G.R. Sanderson, 1856), by Phoebe Palmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)
- Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Concha Herrero Carretero, and José-A. Godoy (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Cotton), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
- The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Jes. Col. 29), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
- The Parliament of Fowles, by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
- Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages, ed. by Warren Ginsberg (HTML at metseditions.org)
- An Alphabet of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum (HTML at Michigan)
- Das Solsequium (only volume published in "Hugo von Trimbergs Lateinische Werke" series; Münchener Text v9; main text in Latin, commentary in German; Munich: G. D. W. Callwey, 1914), by Hugo von Trimberg, ed. by Erich Seemann
- The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares, by Jacques de Vitry, ed. by Thomas Frederick Crane (page images in Austria)
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz
- The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
- Aesop's Fables (and other tales; from various sources), by Aesop (HTML and RealAudio at aesopfables.com)
- An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1921), ed. by Frederic Taber Cooper, illust. by Paul Bransom (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fables of Babrius (London: Lockwood and Co., 1860), by Babrius, trans. by James Davies, contrib. by Aesop and George Cornewall Lewis (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Parables From Nature (London: T. Nelson & Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- A Collection of Fables, For the Instruction and Amusement of Little Misses and Masters (York, UK: J. Kendrew, ca. 1825) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
- Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
- The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
- Ade's Fables (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1914), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon
- Fables for the Times, by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by T. S. Sullivant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Fables in Slang (Chicago and New York: H. S. Stone and Co., 1901), by George Ade, illust. by Clyde J. Newman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Forty Modern Fables (New York: R. H. Russell, 1901), by George Ade
- The Girl Proposition: A Bunch of He and She Fables (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon, John Francis Holme, Carl Werntz, and Clyde J. Newman (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Hand-Made Fables (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- More Fables (1900), by George Ade, illust. by Clyde J. Newman
- Tell Me a Story, by Lisa Suhay (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Fairy Stories and Fables, by James Baldwin (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine (edited with rhymed verse English translations alongside original French; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by Jean de La Fontaine, ed. by Norman B. Spector (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1866), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1884), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1885), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1888), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Public and Private Life of Animals: Adapted From the French of Balzac, Droz, Jules Janin, E. Lemoine, A. de Musset, Georges Sand, &c. (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1877), ed. by J. Thomson, contrib. by P.-J. Stahl, illust. by J. J. Grandville (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fables of Aesop, in Greek, Adapted to the Hamilton System, by an Analytical and Interlinear Translation (in Greek and English; London: W. Aylott and Co., ca. 1829), by Aesop, ed. by James Hamilton
- Abraham Lincoln Toni Kin, qa Aesop Tawoyake Kin: Life of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop's Fables (in Santee; Santee Agency, NE: A. L. Riggs, 1893), by James Garvie, Jennie W. Cox, and Eunice Kitto
- Hindu Fables for Little Children (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1929), by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, illust. by Kurt Wiese (page images at HathiTrust)
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