| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 str.
...SOUTBEY— Thalaba. Bk. VI. St. 13. So, naturaliste observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; his promise! o. WOBDSWOBTH — To a Snow-Drop. Nor will I t inftnitum. J. SWIFT — Poetry. A Raphsody. Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt, II.« crushed... | |
| George Harwood - 1882 - 412 str.
...Nature described in the words — " So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed, ad inflnitum." The Democracy may come to think that nations, like individuals, can pay too dearly for... | |
| Sir Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 230 str.
...Their foes superior by an inch. So, naturalists observe a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. In the verses on his own death, the suppressed passion, the glow arid force of feeling which... | |
| Richard Ashe King - 1882 - 316 str.
...Lane had its parasitic offshoots. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. It was the most nauseating street Mabel ever was in. She had to stoop her head each moment... | |
| Minnesota State Medical Association - 1883 - 344 str.
...some future Koch, peering into the, as yet, unseen, with a 1-75 or i-ioo objective, shall reveal to us that the bacillus has, after all, been the object...have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed, ad infinitum." Suffice it to say, that the doctrine offers much that is not only plausible, but fascinating... | |
| 1883 - 548 str.
...proporro; so in the well-known lines : So naturalists observe a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum, the different stages might be expressed by the word proporro : on consideration, I say,... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 str.
...state of war by nature. Ibid. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em ; And so proceed ad inftnitum. Ibid. Libertas et natale solum; Fine words ! I wonder where yon stole 'em. Vtrsei occasioned... | |
| Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 str.
...Swift died insane in the year 1745. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller still to bite 'em ; And so proceed ad infinituin. Poetry, a Rhapsody. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Thoughts... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 str.
...Their foes superior by an inch. So naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind : Who, though too little to... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 str.
...the Lock. Canto iii. Line 15 So, naturalists observe, a flea, Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em. And so proceed ad inflnitum. 1208 Swift : On Poetry. A Rhapsody Mankind praise against their will, , And mix as much... | |
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