 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 200 страници
...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 :... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 142 страници
...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 30 enough to strike an awe into the beholders." 7. Richard Bentley (1662-1742). Dr. Bentley, the celebrated... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1893 - 280 страници
...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...to strike an awe into beholders." What a surprising humor there is in these descriptions ! How noble the satire is here ! how just and honest ! How perfect... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 страници
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 256 страници
...from Addison'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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 страници
...ironical touch about the commanding statue of the Emperor of Laputa, who was " taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders" (" Gulliver's Travels," part i. chap ii.). A Bowling Green. " Sphseristerium " ("Works,"... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 страници
...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 страници
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 страници
...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 awe into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion... | |
 | 1894 - 852 страници
...should secure the respect of all. " The emperor of Lilliput," said Gulliver, " is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his 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... | |
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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. 
