"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.... The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed;... Unto an evil counselor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's well If God who holds you to the pit of hell,... Much as one holds a spider, will destroy, Baffle and dissipate your soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There may be in the cup A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,... And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge Is not infected; but if one present Th'abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting t...ogether in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three--... That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »