 | Eugene Chen Eoyang - 1993 - 370 sayfa
...determination that the bee is superior because it endows the world with two of its "noblest things": As for the Ancients, we are content with the bee to pretend...our own, beyond our wings and our voice, that is to say, our flights and our language. For the rest, whatever we have got, has been by infinite labor and... | |
 | Donald Davidson - 193 sayfa
...vexed to find at center nothing at all. C83 This page intentionally left blank IV FUGITIVE DAYS And as for us the Ancients, we are content with the bee...our own, beyond our wings and our voice; that is to say, our flights and our language. For the rest, whatever we have got, has been by infinite labor and... | |
 | William V. Spanos - 2000 - 318 sayfa
..."sweetness and light" from Jonathan Swift's parable of the spider and the bee in The Battle of the Books: "As for us, the Ancients, we are content with the...our own beyond our wings and our voice, that is to say, our flights and our language. For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and... | |
 | Matthew Battles - 2004 - 260 sayfa
...other spiders' webs, may be imputed to their being forgotten, or neglected, or hid in a corner. . . . As for us, the Ancients, we are content, with the bee, to pretend nothing of our own beyond our wings and our voice, that is to say, our flights and our language. .... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 sayfa
...pretend to spit wholly out of themselves, is improved by the same arts, by feeding upon the insects and vermin of the age. As for us, the Ancients, we...our own beyond our wings and our voice, that is to say, our flights and our language. For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labour,... | |
 | Susan Glover - 2006 - 240 sayfa
...hear echoes of a reconciliation that Swift came to much later in his life. "Ad for Us, the Antients, We are content with the Bee, to pretend to Nothing of our own, beyond our Wings a/if) our Voice: that is to jay, our Flights atif) our Language."85 The fatherless son, left only imagination... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 sayfa
...pretend to spit wholly out of themselves, is improved by the same arts, by feeding upon the insects and vermin of the age. As for us the ancients, we...our own beyond our wings and our voice: that is to say, oùr flights and our language. For the rest, whatever we bave got has been by infinite labour... | |
 | 1877 - 562 sayfa
...Swift, an earlier writer than Bp. Wilson, will further elucidate the matter:—"-Ksop «aye, *Ав for us, the ancients, we are content, with the bee,...nothing of our own beyond our wings and our voice: tlut is to say, our flights and our language. For the rest, whatever we have got has Ъегп bv infinite... | |
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As for us the ancients, we are content, with the bee, to pretend to nothing of our own beyond our wings and our voice : that is to say, our flights and our language. 
