 I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it a piece of soft fruit, upon which it fell furiously and emptied its poison into it — after which it was well again.  The Quarterly Review - Page 357edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1908 - 1540 pages
...buring^the time I was writing 'Brand' I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it...which it was well again. Does not something of the same kind happen with us poets ? The laws of nature regulate the spiritual world also. After 'Brand'... | |
 | 1908 - 604 pages
...consciousness. On his desk, as he wrote, was a glass with a scorpion in it: "From time to time the Uttle animal was ill. Then I used to give it a piece of...poison into it— after which it was well again." The poet is surely thinking of himself when he describes this curative process of his Uttle brother,... | |
 | Henrik Ibsen - Authors, Norwegian - 1905 - 480 pages
...During the time I was writing Brand I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it...which it was well again. Does not something of the same kind happen with us poets ? The laws of nature regulate the spiritual world also. After Brand... | |
 | Henrik Ibsen - Authors, Norwegian - 1905 - 476 pages
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...the tune I was writing " Brand," I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it...scorpion in the glass. In one of his early letters to Bjornson, he had written : ' When I read the news from home, when I gaze upon all that respectable,... | |
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 | American fiction - 1907 - 538 pages
...the time I was writing "Brand" I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to time the animal was ill. Then I used to give it a piece of...which it was well again. Does not something of the same kind happen with us poets ? The laws of Nature regulate the Spiritual world also. ' ' We may look... | |
 | Popular culture - 1907 - 990 pages
...During the time I was writing Brand I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it...furiously and emptied its poison into it ... after that it was well again. Does not something of the same kind happen to us poets"? The laws of nature... | |
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...inner consciousness. On his desk, as he wrote, was a glass with a scorpion in it: "From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it...poison into it — after which it was well again." The poet is surely thinking of himself when he describes this curative process of his little brother,... | |
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...inner consciousness. On his desk, as he wrote, was a glass with a scorpion in it: "From time to time the little animal was ill. Then I used to give it...poison into it — after which it was well again." The poet is surely thinking of himself when he describes this curative process of his little brother,... | |
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