 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...never known to steal a hint ; and he certainly owed as little to his predecessors as any modern writer. Yet we cannot help suspecting that he borrowed, perhaps...Gulliver's Travels appeared Addison wrote these lines : " Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infcrt Pygmeadnm ductor, qui, majestate verendus, Incesauqne... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1867 - 334 pages
...his body and limbs well-proportioned, and his deportment majestic. He is taller by the breadth of mij 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!... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, and his deportment majestic. He is taller by tlie 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, and his deportment majestic. He is taller by tJie 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...his body and limbs well proportioned, and his deportment majestic. He is taller by tlu breadth of rny nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into beholders." 'VMiat a surprising humour there is in these descriptions ! How noble the satire is here... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Castaways - 1871 - 406 pages
...they alighted, and came near his person, which I am now going to describe. 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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...terror of the universe?" What is our homage worth, when a pigmy ' is taller, by almost the breadth of a nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into his beholders ?' Three-fourths of our sentiment are follies, and the weakness of our organs is the... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...terror of the universe?' What is our homage worth, when a pigmy ' is taller, by almost the breadth of a nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into his beholders ? ' Three-fourths of our sentiment are follies, and the weakness of our organs is the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...they alighted, and cam 3 near to his person, which I am now going to describe. 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,... | |
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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. 
