 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - 1996 - 336 páginas
...my parents (KW) -^55^ To Katharine and Sarah (JT) The Spider and the Bee ... In short, the question comes all to this — Whether is the nobler being...contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, which feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, produces nothing at last... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 páginas
...own Person." His rival the bee describes such self-sufficiency differently: the spider is a creature "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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1999 - 276 páginas
...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 four inches round, by an overweening pride, which feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, produc[es] nothing at... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 392 páginas
...light. The bee, in a rhetorical question to the spider, asks which of the following is the nobler: 'That which by a lazy Contemplation of four Inches round, by an overweening Pride, which feeding and engendering on it self, turns all into Excrement and Venom; producing nothing at... | |
 | Matthew Battles - 2004 - 260 páginas
...his rhetoric, however, and is ready with an elegant retort: [T]he question comes all to this—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, produces nothing at last, but flybane and cobweb; or that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 páginas
...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...contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, which feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, produc[es] nothing at... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 páginas
...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 that... | |
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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... 
