 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 էջ
...at last it should end in their own ruin, as well as ours. Be not like the deaf adder, who refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Although my letter be directed to you, Mr. Harding, yet I intend it for all my .countrymen. j> 4 I... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 էջ
...at last it should end in their own ruin, as well as ours. Be not like the deaf adder, who refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Although my letter be directed to you, Mr. Harding, yet I intend it for all my countrymen. I have no... | |
 | Thomas Shaw - 1808 - 516 էջ
...alludes to it (Psal. Iviii. 4, 5.) when he mentions the deaf adder, which stoppeth her ear, and refuseth to hear the -voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. The like is taken notice of Eccles. x. 11. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment, and a... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 էջ
...venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths ; smite the jawbones of die lions, O Lord : let them fall... | |
 | George Pretyman - 1811 - 614 էջ
...venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears ; which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely (q).' The excuse of a certain natural necessity in crimes is not admitted. For the Serpent might have... | |
 | Scepticism - 1814 - 258 էջ
...path of duty. And after all, " with all appliances and means to boot," they are but little disposed to ', hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." But we are not at liberty to relax in our endeavours after a great good, because success is uncertain... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 էջ
...when David speaks of the ungodly as being ' like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears, and refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely,'" he addresses our understanding through the medium of the figure called simile. When on the other hand,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 610 էջ
...at last it should end in their own ruin, as well as ours. Be not like " the deaf adder, who refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." Although my letter be directed to you, Mr Harding, yet I intend it for all my countrymen. I have no... | |
 | 1814 - 568 էջ
...their manifest disadvantage. "They are like to the deaf adder, which stoppeth her cars, and refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." As the following narrative seems to give an ingenious explanation of this passage in the Psalms, it... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 էջ
...venomous as the poison of a serpent : even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears ; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer : charm he never so wisely. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths ; smite the jaw-bones of the lions, O Lord : let them fall... | |
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They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. 
