...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...