...book sent to him called Gulliver's Travels. " A bishop here," he adds, " said that the book was full of improbable lies, and for his part he hardly believed a word of it." Arbuthnot writes him : — " Lord Scarborough, who is no inventor of stories, told us that he fell...

...circumstances. That delightful Irish bishop, if ever he was, who declared that " the book was full of improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it," is the only critic we want. " ' Gulliver's Travels ' is almost the most delightful children's book...

...intended to publish real absurdities of philosophers and it when "he found a printer brave inventors. improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed...do not persuade your ministers to keep me on that bide, if it were but by a court expedient of keeping me in prison for a plotter ; but at the same time...

...least resemblance to the the book, that he intended to publish real absurdities of philosophers and improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it ; aud so much for Gulliver. Going to England is a very good thing, if it were not attended with an...

...indicated in Swift's report of the criticism by an Irish bishop, who said that " the book was full of improbable lies, and for his part he hardly believed a word of it." There is something pleasant in the intense gravity of the narrative, which recalls and may have been...

...preferment in England. And in a letter, written at a much later period from Dublin, he tells Pope that going to England is a very good thing if it were not...with an ugly circumstance of returning to Ireland. The truth appears to be that the political condition of Ireland disgusted him. The system adopted by...

...let censure and opinion take their course. A bishop here said, That book was full of improbabilities, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it...if it were but by a Court expedient of keeping me iu prison for a plotter. But, at the same time, I must tell you, that such journeys very much shorten...

...preferment in England. And in a letter written at a much later period from Dublin, he tells Pope that going to England is a very good thing if it were not...with an ugly circumstance of returning to Ireland. The truth appears to be that the political condition of Ireland disgusted him. The system adopted by...

...prominence. The air of verisimilitude, so perfect as to lead an Irish bishop to say that " the book was full of improbable lies, and for his part, he hardly believed a word of it,"'» — this, no other writer but DEFOE could ever have succeeded in equaling, — certainly not the author...

...intended to publish real absurdities of philosophers and 't when "he found a printer brave inventors. improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it ; arid so much for Gulliver. Going to England is a very good thing, if it were not attended with an...