 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 466 páginas
...manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's meditations.) THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...twigs to its sapless trunk; it is now at best but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air;... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 páginas
...Travels " (1726) , and " A Modest Proposal " (1729).] THIS single stick, which you behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk ; 'tis now, at best, but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 páginas
...manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's meditations.) THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...twigs to its sapless trunk; it is now at best but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...fewest bones. A Meditation upon a Broomstick. This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously J o G eí2 f x \ v ', ) " yM ` "@~ Ql ~ $ 5xz F y + r ' x d O llU2 u qK j / 6 reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...fewest bones. A Meditation upon a Broomstick. This single stick, which you now l>ehold ingloriously in the Sermons there is no declamation and little...In Religion. It has been thought by some persons docs the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its... | |
 | 1903
...brings home honey and wax. ESSAY ON A BROOMSTICK. This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...to its sapless trunk : it is now, at best, but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 páginas
...brings home honey and wax. ESSAY ON A BROOMSTICK. This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...to its sapless trunk : it is now, at best, but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 páginas
...brings home honey and wax. ESSAY ON A BROOMSTICK. This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...to its sapless trunk : it is now, at best, but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 480 páginas
...ON A BROOMSTICK. This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected comer, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest : it...to its sapless trunk : it is now, at best, but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...OF THE HON. ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. [1701] This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...forest It was full of sap, full of leaves, and full 6 of boughs; but now in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered... | |
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This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest: it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs: but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with... 
