| Omens - 1868 - 210 páginas
...clicks the hour of death." Swift endeavoured to perform this useful task by means of ridicule, thus: " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will bite it will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch ; Because, like a watch, it always... | |
| John Timbs - 1869 - 280 páginas
...b. ii. e. 7. Swift endeavoured to perform this useful task by means of ridicule, thus : "A wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form : With...And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch, Because like a watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house that are sick ! For,... | |
| John Timbs - 1869 - 374 páginas
...the ticking was reproduced. Swift has prescribed this destructive remedy by way of ridicule : — " A Wood- worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form : With teeth or with clawa it will bite, or will scratch ; And chambermaids christen this worm a Death-watch; Because like... | |
| John Brand - 1872 - 524 páginas
...Dean Swift, in his invective against wood. It f'lruishes us, too, with a charm to avert the omen : " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will hite, or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch : Because, like a watch, it... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1874 - 392 páginas
...death-watch has been affirmed to " click the hour of death." Swift thus ridicules the superstition : " A wood- worm that lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will bite, it will scratch, And chamber-maids christen this worm a death- watch ; Because, like a watch, it will... | |
| John Platts - 1876 - 986 páginas
...in which it is heard. Thus sings the muse of the witty Dean of St. Patrick on this subject : — " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form: With teeth or with jlaws, it will bite or will scratch. And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch ; Because like... | |
| Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1878 - 346 páginas
...tessellatum. The witty Dean Swift has left us the following amusing charm to avert the fatal omen : — ' ' A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in...And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch : Because, like a watch, it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For... | |
| Dover coll - 1883 - 326 páginas
...tries to eradicate the foolish superstition, which caused its name, by means of ridicule, thus : — " A wood worm, That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws it will bite, it will scratch, The chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch; Because like a watch it always... | |
| Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1880 - 340 páginas
...witty Dean Swift has left us the following amusing charm to avert the fatal omen : — "A woodworm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form ; With...And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch : Because, like a watch, it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For... | |
| John Platts - 1882 - 558 páginas
...in which it is heard. Thus sings the muse of the witty Dean of St. Patrick on this subject : — " A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form: With teeth or with jlaws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch; Because like... | |
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