 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. Does not something...  The Quarterly Review - Page 379edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1908 - 1540 pages
...meanings of the play than by considering it in its relation to Ibsen's own life and nature. ' ' buring^the time I was writing 'Brand' I had on my desk a glass...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
...certain that by self -analysis I brought to light many of both Peer Gynt's and Stensgaard's qualities. During the time I was writing Brand I had on my desk...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
...certain that by self -analysis I brought to light many of both Peer Gynt's and Stensgaard's qualities. During the time I was writing Brand I had on my desk...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... | |
 | Literature - 1906 - 858 pages
...and he will confess in a letter, "I should very much like to write publicly about the mean behavior of the Government," which, however, he refrains from...scorpion in the glass. In one of his early letters to BjiSrnson, he hud written: "When I read the news from home, when I gaze upon all that respectable,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1906 - 812 pages
...the time I was writing " Brand," I had on my desk a glass with a scorpion in it. From time to tune 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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