 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...destroying it. r From 'Gulliver's Travels' [1726-1727]. THE Emperor of the Lilliputians 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,... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 330 pages
...they alighted and came near his person, which 106 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 602 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 infert Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus, Incessuque... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 270 pages
...help suspecting that he borrowed, perhaps uncon10 sciously, one of the happiest touches in his Voyages to Lilliput from Addison's verses. Let our readers...Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : " Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus, 2O Incessuque... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 164 pages
...perhaps unconsciously, one of the happiest touches in his voyage to Lilliput from Addison's verses. =o Let our readers judge. "The Emperor," says Gulliver,...beholders." About thirty years before 'Gulliver's Travels' ap-25 peared, Addison wrote these lines : — " Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert Pygmeadum... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 248 pages
...perhaps unconsciously, one of the happiest touches in his voyage to Lilliput from Addison's verses. 20 Let our readers judge. " The Emperor," says Gulliver,...beholders." About thirty years before 'Gulliver's Travels' ap- 25 peared, Addison wrote these lines : — " Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert Pygmeadum... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 128 pages
...from Addison's verses. Let our readers judge. "The emperor," says Gulliver, "is taller by about the 5 breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone...Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : — " Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert 10 Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 266 pages
...judge. "The Emperor," says Gulliver, "is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his 20 court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into...Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines : — "Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert 25 Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus, Incessuque... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 428 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... | |
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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. 
