 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...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 are sweetness and light." When I Come to be Old Not to be influenced by, or give ear to knavish... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - American fiction - 1928 - 58 pages
...their skill in building, range in the sunshine "through every corner of nature" and fill their "hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." No writer ever stated in more felicitous words the difference between... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Collections - 1960 - 288 pages
...have "by infinite labour and search, and ranging through every corner of nature" filled their "hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." Far more. . .to save us: omitted in ed.1. p. $6. And very freely. .... | |
 | Kenneth Knowles Ruthven - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 308 pages
...entrails, and vastly inferior to those admirably Ancient bees who search hither and yon before producing honey and wax, ' thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light'.19 Pollen-gatherers operate with a clear conscience as long as they... | |
 | Richard Milton Martin - Philosophy - 1980 - 328 pages
...nature; the difference is that, instead of dirt and poison, we have chosen rather to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, sweetness and light." Let us think of the bees as humanists, and the spiders as mathematicians and scientists, as Henry Veatch... | |
 | Lincoln B. Faller - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 378 pages
...scorns to own any Obligation or Assistance from without [Bees] have rather chose to fill . . . Hives with Honey and Wax, thus furnishing Mankind with the two Noblest of Things, which are Sweetness and Light. Swift, The Battle of the Books Contents Preface page ix Part I. Turning... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...(1822-1888) English poet, critic 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 are sweetness and light. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist Culture is the bed-rock,... | |
 | Joseph M. Levine - History - 1991 - 452 pages
...achievement worth noticing except wrangling and satire. As for the ancients, like bees, they fill their lives with honey and wax, "thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." At last both sides resolve upon battle and choose their leaders. Now... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...of nature; the difference isthat instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives Ѱ [B which are sweetness and light. JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1 745), Anglo-Irish satirist. Aesop, in The Battle... | |
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - History - 1996 - 336 pages
...flies for supper? Why haven't we, "instead of dirt and poison . . . rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light"? This enigma troubled Jonathan Swift three centuries ago. And it troubled... | |
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... 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 are sweetness and light. 
