 ... 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
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - 1996 - 336 sayfa
...and venom, produces nothing at last 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. Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books (1704) Contents Foreword by the Editors u Dumbing Down: Some... | |
 | William Casement - 200 sayfa
...was represented by the bee, who labors with the materials nature provides and "by an universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax."17 In other words, while modernism was overeager to theorize, the ancients and their later followers... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 2002 - 562 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." The point is rammed home by Aesop, concluding that not the spider's solipsistic weaving, but the bee's... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 392 sayfa
...Venom; producing nothing at last, 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' (232). The bee's question is Swift's question. But Swift is not simply an advocate of the humane and... | |
 | Matthew Battles - 2004 - 260 sayfa
...excrement and venom, produces nothing at last, 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. In his spider, Swift finds an archetype of scholarly folly familiar to his readers. Francis Bacon himself... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 sayfa
...and venom, produc[es] nothing at last 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 in... | |
 | Christopher Hogwood - 2005 - 176 sayfa
...opening metaphor, Handel had all the virtues of Jonathan Swift's bee which 'by an universal Range, with long Search, much Study, true Judgment, and Distinction of Things, brings home Honey and Wax'.32 5 The Concerti a due cori Tho' no man ever introduced such a number of instruments, yet in... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 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 (3). This dispute was managed with such eagerness, clamour, and warmth, that the two parties of books,... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 372 sayfa
...like the bee in Jonathan Swift's parable of the spider and the bee — he, "by an universal Range, with long Search, much Study, true Judgment, and Distinction of Things, brings home Honey and Wax."67 Aware of the possibility of "dusty oblivion," Irving nevertheless allows that now and then... | |
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