 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 514 pagina’s
...fhe bands that held it fast, and contributed a!l thut lay in its power to disengage, so formidable ;m antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected...forsaken, and a new one begun, which was completed in tha usual time. I had now a mind to try how many cobwebs a single spider could furnish, wherefore I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pagina’s
...order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed...the cobweb was now entirely forsaken, and a new one began, which was completed in the usual time. I had now a mind to try how many cobwebs a single spider... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 448 pagina’s
...order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed...formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, £ expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net, but those... | |
 | James Rennie - 1829 - 342 pagina’s
...out to seize it, as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would set about repairing the breaches which were made in its net ; but these it seems... | |
 | 1832 - 220 pagina’s
...enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the builds that held it fast, and (•»ни ilmied all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would set about repairing the breaches in its net ; but these it seem» were irreparable... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pagina’s
...order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly no, IhOK0 ita power to to disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pagina’s
...it as usual, upon perceiving what kind- of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all tiie bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable MII antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider w-julil have set about repairing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pagina’s
...order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to to disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pagina’s
...to seize it, as usual, upon perceiving what kind of a/i enemy it had to to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would set about repairing the breaches which were made in its net: but these it seems... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pagina’s
...order to seize it as usual, upon pereeiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that by in its power to to disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected... | |
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... state ; and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp into the net ; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy... 
