| 5 Spiders Quotes
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“I've lately had two spiders
Crawling upon my startled hopes--
Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,
Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes:
I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: Richard III (act IV, sc. 2), (altered)
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“Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:
If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
She feels it instantly on every side.”
Sir John Davies Quotes Source: The Immortality of the Soul (sec. XVIII, Feeling)
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“Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd
In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,
Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie
Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 998)
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“"Will you walk into my parlour?"
Said a spider to a fly;
"'Tis the prettiest little parlour
That ever you did spy."”
Mary Howitt Quotes Source: The Spider and the Fly
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“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 217)
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