 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 páginas
...from Addisou's verses. Let our readers judge. 10 " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1893 - 280 páginas
...— " the Emperor's features," Gulliver says, " are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip, an arched nose ; his complexion olive, his 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... | |
 | 1894 - 852 páginas
...but to overtop them should secure the respect of all. " The emperor of Lilliput," said Gulliver, " is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than...court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into his beholders." Such an awe many of the writers in Mr. Miles's eighth volume may well feel in presence... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 128 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 páginas
...young and beggars us when old. JONATHAN SWIFT. THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT. [From Gulliver's Travels.] He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awo into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1895 - 472 páginas
...but to overtop them should secure the respect of all. " The Emperor of Lilliput," said Gulliver, " is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than...court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into his beholders." Such an awe many of the writers in Mr Miles's eighth volume may well feel in presence... | |
 | 1895 - 508 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... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 páginas
...civilization, the victor or the vanquished. — PRESCOTT. A braver ne'er to battle rode. — SCOTT. He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court. — SWIFT. SYNTAX. Other after the comparative form. Use of 'As superlative degree. 429. When an object... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 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 humor there is in these descrip- i. tions ! How noble the satire is here... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 266 páginas
...from Addison's verses. 20 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' ap- 25 peared, Addison wrote these lines : — " Jamque... | |
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He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, 'which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose ; his complexion olive, his countenance erect,... 
