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" Things were at this crisis when a material accident fell out. For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before... "
The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... - Page 146
by Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 2984 pages
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The Battle of the Books

Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 404 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turn-pikes and palisadoes, all after the Modern...
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Foundation Readers, Book 4

B. Ellen Burke - 1911 - 268 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisades, all after the modern...
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English Prose: Seventeenth century

Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle 5 were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...way. JONATHAN SWIFT The Spider and the Bee (From The Battle of the Books) JONATHAN SWIFT scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle 5 were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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Jonathan Swift: Selections

Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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The Copeland Reader

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered s/ s/ some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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Chalmeriana: Or, A Collection of Papers, Literary and Political; Together ...

George Hardinge - 1971 - 180 pages
...dwelled a certain SPIDER, fwollen up to the firft magnitude by the deftru&ion of an infinite number of Flies, whofe fpoils lay fcattered before the gates...his palace, like human bones before the cave of fome "•iant. In this manfion he had dwelt for fome time, without danger to his perfon from Jioallows from...
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The Spider and the Bee

Stephen M. Press, Steve Press - 1990 - 44 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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A Modest Proposal and Other Prose

Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 pages
...to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern...
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