| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 páginas
...Lilliput from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. " The Emperor," says Gulliver, " is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders." About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : — " Jamque acies... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...Lilliput from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. " The Emperor," says Gulliver, " is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders." About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : — " Junqne acics... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...countenance erect, his body and limbs well-proportioned, and his deportment majestic. He is taller by the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into beholders." What a surprising humour there is in these descriptions ! How noble the satire is here... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 páginas
...from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. " ' The Emperor,' says Gulliver, ' is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.' " About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : Jamque acies inter... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 504 páginas
...from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. " ' The Emperor," says Gulliver, ' is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders." " About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : Jamque acies inter... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1859 - 96 páginas
...ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs. The Emperor is taller than any of his court, which strikes an awe into the beholders. His features are strong...; his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his limbs well proportioned, all his actions graceful and majestic. He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 páginas
...Lilliput from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. " The Emperor," says Gulliver, " is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders." About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : " Jamqne acies inter... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 páginas
...Lilliput from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. " The Emperor," says Gulliver, " is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders." About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : " Jamque acies inter... | |
| John Timbs - 1862 - 422 páginas
...thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared. The passage is : " The Emperor is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which...alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders." Gulliver's Travels sold with such rapidity, that the whole impression was exhausted in a week. Pope... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 páginas
...countenance erect, his body and limbs well-proportioned, and his deportment majestic. He is taller by the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into beholders.' What a surprising humour there is in these descriptions ! How noble the satire is here... | |
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