 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...life. But the noise and astonishment of the people at seeing me rise and walk, are not to be expressed. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards...creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple. ' The Struldbrugs ONE day in much good company I was asked by a person of quality, whether I had seen... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 pages
...life. But the noise and astonishment of the people at seeing me rise and walk, are not to be expressed. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards...creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple. Chapter 2 The Emperor ofLittiput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his... | |
 | Elaine L. Robinson - 2006 - 253 pages
...To emphasize his lack of empathy, he is put in the same position as he puts African slaves. He says: "The chains that held my left leg were about two yards...creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple." He complains of "as melancholy a disposition" as ever I had in my life" (23). As an African slave ship... | |
 | Martin Woodside, Jonathan Swift - 2006 - 168 pages
...window, not six inches from the ground. Through that eleven chains were fed and chained to my left leg. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long and gave me only the freedom of walking backward and forward in a semicircle. Being fixed within four inches of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 330 pages
...of the People at feeing me rife and walk, are not to be exprefled. The Chains that held my Left-leg were about two Yards long, and gave me not only the...four Inches of the Gate, allowed me to creep in, and ly at my full Length in the Temple. CHAP. II. The TZniperor of Lilliput, attended hy feveral of the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 464 pages
...But the noise and astonishment of the people, at seeing me rise and walk, are not to be expressed. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but being fixed within four inches of the... | |
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... pain of death. When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life. But the noise and astonishment of the people at seeing... 
