 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 288 páginas
...discourse to her visitors. It ran in this wise : " 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 páginas
...OF THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. *THHIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying -*- in that neglected corner, I once knew in...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... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 páginas
...whose personality is pictured by his own books more clearly than Swift. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and...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 Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 páginas
...Abolishing of Christianity in England may be attended with Inconveniences. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK of boughs : but now, in vain does the busy art of...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... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 páginas
...stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a nourishing state in a forest ; it was full of sap, full of leaves,...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;... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 páginas
...stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a nourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves,...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;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 páginas
...philosopher, the Hon. Robert Boyle, opens as follows : " This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...the busy 'art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tieing that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk. 'Tis now at best but the reverse of what... | |
 | 1920 - 508 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 páginas
...THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYI,E*S MEDITATIONS. * THIS single stick, which you now 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 earth,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 páginas
...philosopher, the Hon. Robert Boyle, opens as follows : "This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing...the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tieing that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk. 'Tis now at best but the reverse of what... | |
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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... 
