 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 586 Seiten
...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: —... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 Seiten
...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 a\vre into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 Seiten
...person, which I am now going to describe. He is t-.illor, by almost the breadth of my nail, than iinv of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into his beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 Seiten
...and came near his person, which I am now going to describe. He is taller by almost the breath 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 Seiten
...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 - 1844 - 446 Seiten
...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 :—... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 Seiten
...and came near his person, which I arn now going to describe. He U taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into his beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian Up and arched nose, his complexion... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...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...king of the pigmies is measured by the same standard. We have all read in Milton of the spear that was like " the mast of some tall amiral," but these images... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...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...king of the pigmies is measured by the same standard. We have all read in Milton of the spear that was like "the mast of some tall amiral," but these images... | |
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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. 
