 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 pages
...stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing asking me whether J was a Whig or Tory. Then, turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the ' Eoyal Sovereign,' he observed how contemptible a thing was... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 pages
...stroking me gently -with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing asking me whether / was a Whig or Tory. Then, turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the ' Royal Sovereign,' he observed how contemptible a thing was... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me whether I was a whig or tory! Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind...Royal Sovereign, he observed, " how contemptible a tiling was human grandeur which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I; and yet," says he,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 208 pages
...and observations upon all I said. But after I had been talking copiously of my own beloved country, turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, nearly as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " how contemptible a thing was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities arc evolved, at so man}' stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign," the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 pages
...after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I was a Whig or Tory ? Then turning to his f,rst minister, who waited behind him with a white staff,...he, I dare engage these creatures have their titles ami distinctions of honour ; they contrive little nests and burrows, that they call houses and cities... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign," the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Cooke Taylor - 1884 - 490 pages
...near as tall as the mainmast of the Roval Sovereign, he observed, "hgw comempuDie a tmng was numai> grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive...these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honor ; they contrive little nests and burrows, that they call houses and cities ; they make a figure... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 664 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign," the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the "Royal Sovereign", the king of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
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Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I:... 
