 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...!) — "The Emperor's features," Gulliver says, " are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip, an arched nose, his complexion olive, his 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... | |
 | 1873 - 1086 pages
...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,...great felicity, and generally victorious. For the very parsimonious." — Wade's British History, p. 334. Compare also the following passage from Thackeray's... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 pages
...taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe here is a knowledge that is not attended with doing...sign how this work of grace discovereth itself whe very parsimonious." — Wade's British History, p. 334. Compare also the following passage from Thackeray's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...— " The Emperor's , features," Gulliver says, " are stroug and masculine, with an Austrian lip, an arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, and his deportment majestie. He is taller by the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone... | |
 | Albany Fonblanque - 1874 - 564 pages
...breadth of my nail, than any of his Court, which alone it enough to strike an awe into the beholder. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian...his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.' — Gulliver's Travels. EXTREMES meet. Lilliput and Brobdignag have come together. The public curiosity... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1875 - 430 pages
...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,...then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three-quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...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,...years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned at out seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.* For the better convenience of beholding... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 208 pages
...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,...then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three-quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 pages
...taller, by ahnost 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,...then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and threequarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...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,...countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, nil his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He was then past his prime, being twentyeight... | |
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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. His features are strong and masculine... 
