 ... this ; whether is the nobler being of the two, that 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 flybane and a cobweb...  The British Quarterly Review - Sayfa 3131876Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 sayfa
...venom, producing nothing at all, but fly bane and a cobweb ; or that which, by an universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax? 105 This dispute was managed with such eagerness, clamour, and warmth, that the two parties of books,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 sayfa
...into venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb ; or that which, by an universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax ? This dispute was managed with such eagerness, clamour, and warmth, that the two parties of books,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 sayfa
...venom, producing nothing at all, but fly bane and a cobweb ; or that which, by an universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax? 105 ENGLISH LITERATURE This dispute was managed with such eagerness, clamour, and warmth, that the... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - 1920 - 246 sayfa
...excrement and venom, producing nothing at all but flybane and cobweb; or that which by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax. The dispute assuming so interesting a nature, the two armies of books stood in silent attention below,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 490 sayfa
...Venom ; producing nothing at allj but Fly-bane and a Cobweb : Or That, which, by an universal Range, with long Search, much Study, true Judgment, and Distinction of Things, brings home Honey and Wax. THIS Dispute was managed with such Eagerness, resemblance to the following passage in Temple's Essay... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 sayfa
...and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb; or that which, by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax." This dispute was managed with such eagerness, clamour, and warmth, that the two parties of books, in... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 sayfa
...and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb ; or that which, by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax." This dispute was managed with such eagerness, clamour, and warmth, that the two parties of books, in... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1960 - 288 sayfa
...excrement and venom, producing nothing at all but flybane and cobweb; or that which by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax." The Spider, as Aesop then points out, is the type of the moderns, the Bee of the ancients, who have... | |
 | Richard Milton Martin - 1980 - 328 sayfa
...plunder on nature, a free booter over fields and gardens." He is "that which by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax." On this account, we should no doubt tend to opt for the bees and to be "content ... to pretend to nothing... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 sayfa
...Venom; producing nothing at last, but Fly-bane and a Cobweb : Or That, which, by an universal Range, with long Search, much Study, true Judgment, and Distinction of Things, brings home Honey and Wax. Jonathan Swift, The Battel of the Books Before Schleiermacher introduced the discipline of general... | |
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