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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Spider
The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine!Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Pope.
“Will you walk into my parlor?”Said a spider to a fly;“’Tis the prettiest little parlorThat ever you did spy.”
Mary Howitt.
Much like a subtle spider, which doth sitIn 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.
Or (almost) like a spider, who, confin’dIn her web’s centre, shakt with every winde;Moves in an instant, if the buzzing flieStir but a string of her lawn canopie.
Du Bartas.