 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 Seiten
...other glutinous Matter, to give a Strength and ConfiAence to the Threads. There was an Aftronomer, who had undertaken to place a Sun-dial upon the great Weathercock on the Town-houfe, by adjufting the annual and diurnal Motions of the Earth and Sun, fo as to anfwer and coincide... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 Seiten
...and other glutinous Matter, to give a Strength and Confidence to the Threads. THERE was an Aftronomer who had undertaken to place a Sun-Dial upon the great Weather-Cock on the Town-Houfe, by adjufting the annual and diurnal Motions of the Earch and Sun, fo as to anfwer and coincide... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 Seiten
...fit every body's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and...coincide with all accidental turnings of the wind. I was complaining of a small fit of the colick, upon which my conductor led me into a room where a great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 Seiten
...fit every body's fancy, as soon as he' could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and...sun-dial, upon the great weather-cock on the town-house, jay adjusting the annual and diurnal motions of the earth and sun, so as to answer and coincide with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 Seiten
...fit every body's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and...coincide with all accidental turnings of the wind. I was complaining of a small fit of the colic, upon which my conductor led me into a room where a great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 Seiten
...fit every body's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gum?, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and...weather-cock on the \ town-house, by adjusting the annual and dinrnal motions of the earth and sun, so as to answer and coincide with all accidental turnings of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 Seiten
...fit every body's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads." f There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weathercock on the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 Seiten
...fit every body's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads." f There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weathercock on the... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 Seiten
...fit every body'j fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies of certain gums, oils , and other glutinous matter to give a strength and consistence to the threads. There wa* an astronomer who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weather-cock on the town- house... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 494 Seiten
...to fit everybody's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads."f * See Pope's note upon the Dunciad, line 590 : — Or draw to silk Arachne's subtile line.... | |
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... fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads. 
