| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 trang
...nature; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with...noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon the close of this long des- ' cant... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 trang
...nature ; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with...noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon the close of this long descant... | |
| Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1812 - 250 trang
...nature ; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with...noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon the close of this long descant... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 356 trang
...nature ; the difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, whicb are sweetness and light." It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 trang
...nature ; the difference is, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with...noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon the close of this long descant... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 trang
...nature ; the difference is, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with...noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. 0 It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon the close of this longdescant... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 trang
...nature. The difference is, that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chose to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are, sweetuess and light.' It is wonderful to conceive the tumult arisen among the books, upon the close... | |
| 1872 - 676 trang
...nature ; the difference ¡8, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax : thus furnishing mankind with...noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." — Swift's Worla, 1870, vol. ip 128. JONATHAN BOUCHIER. COIN. — Can any one assist me to identify... | |
| 1877 - 564 trang
...nature ; the difference is that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which ure sweetness and light.' " Now in the allegory preceding Temple figures as the bee ; and Swift in... | |
| 1889 - 670 trang
...poison [such as are collected by modern authors or spiders] we have rather chose [tic] to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of thing«, which are sweetness and light." WALTSR W. SKKAT. REFERENCES то SHAKSPEARE AND CHAUCEH. —... | |
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