 | Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 494 sayfa
...one Insect 'furnishes you with a share of Poison to destroy another. So that in short, the Question comes all to this ; Whether is the nobler Being of the two, That which by a lazy Contemplation of Jour Inches round; by an over-weening Pride, which feeding and engendering on it self, turns all into... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 490 sayfa
...one Insect furnishes you with a share of Poison to destroy another. So that in short, the Question comes all to this ; Whether is the nobler Being of the two, That which by a/tazy Contemplation of four Inches round ; by an over-weening Pride, which feeding and engendering... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 sayfa
...one insect furnishes you with a share of poison to destroy another. So that, in short, the question comes all to this —Whether is the nobler being of...by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb; or... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 sayfa
...one insect furnishes you with a share of poison to destroy another. So that, in short, the question nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but...hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb; or... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1960 - 288 sayfa
...materials extracted altogether out of my own person." Whereupon the Bee asb "Whether is the nobler of the two, that which by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by tn overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns •11 into excrement and venom, producing... | |
 | George Hardinge - 1971 - 180 sayfa
...one infect furniQies you with a ftore of poifon to deftroy another. So that in fhort, the queftion comes all to this; whether is the nobler being of...contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride which, feeding and engendering on itfelf, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 sayfa
...issues out, You possess a good plentiful Store of Dirt and Poison in your Breast. . . . the Question comes all to this; Whether is the nobler Being of...by a lazy Contemplation of four Inches round; by an over- weening Pride, which feeding and engendering on it self, turns all in to Excrement and Venom;... | |
 | Ian Small, Marcus Walsh - 1991 - 238 sayfa
...the modern subjectivist editor is a creature spider-like confined to itself and the little it knows, 'which by a lazy Contemplation of four Inches round; by an over-weening Pride, which feeding and engendering on it self, turns all into Excrement and Venom; producing nothing at... | |
 | Eugene Chen Eoyang - 1993 - 370 sayfa
...contrasted with that of the spider in Swift's telling comparison in The Battle of the Books: Which is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy...by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb; or... | |
 | Werner Cohn - 1995 - 184 sayfa
...technique is revealing. The mind of the propagandist is very much like the spider in Swift's fable, "which by a lazy contemplation of four inches round,...by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all but flyband and cobweb." Those... | |
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So that, in short, the question comes all to this; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride... 
