The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servantsA. Constable, 1814 |
この書籍内から
検索結果1-5 / 49
11 ページ
... sometimes for interest ; for in his books he gives my lord Oxford as great a charac- ter as if he was speaking of Socrates or Marcus Antoninus : but when I am dead , the reverse of the character will come out , with vouchers to it ...
... sometimes for interest ; for in his books he gives my lord Oxford as great a charac- ter as if he was speaking of Socrates or Marcus Antoninus : but when I am dead , the reverse of the character will come out , with vouchers to it ...
34 ページ
... sometimes excites indignation , is never the object of contempt ; but this appears to be true , only because courage is supposed to imply superiority ; for this officer in the guards becomes extreme- ly ridiculous and contemptible by an ...
... sometimes excites indignation , is never the object of contempt ; but this appears to be true , only because courage is supposed to imply superiority ; for this officer in the guards becomes extreme- ly ridiculous and contemptible by an ...
41 ページ
... Sometimes they determined to starve me , or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows , which would soon dispatch me ; but again they considered , that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the ...
... Sometimes they determined to starve me , or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows , which would soon dispatch me ; but again they considered , that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the ...
48 ページ
... sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes , ) a pocket perspective , and some other little conveniencies ; which being of no consequence to the emperor , I did not think myself bound in honour to discover , and I appre- hended they ...
... sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes , ) a pocket perspective , and some other little conveniencies ; which being of no consequence to the emperor , I did not think myself bound in honour to discover , and I appre- hended they ...
49 ページ
... sometimes lie down , and let five or six of them dance on my hand ; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide - and - seek in my hair . I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking the ...
... sometimes lie down , and let five or six of them dance on my hand ; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide - and - seek in my hair . I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking the ...
多く使われている語句
able animal answer appeared Aristotle attended Author Balnibarbi Big-endian Blefuscu body bottle Brobdingnag called candle captain carry cern CHAP chidden command contrived court creature desired discourse discovered door drink emperor England favour fear feet flapper footman gave give Glubbdubdrib Glumdalclitch ground Gulliver Gulliver's Travels half hand happened head heard hogshead honour horse Houyhnhnms hundred Illington island kind king kingdom lady language Laputa learned least leave likewise Lilliput Lilliputians live looked Luggnagg majesty majesty's manner master meat ment mind minister narch nardac nature neral never observed opinion person pleased prince prodigious queen reader reason servants ship side soon struldbrugs thing thought tincture tion told took top-mast travels turn vessel virtue voyage walk wherein whereof whole wholly words Yahoos yards young
人気のある引用
39 ページ - 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...
177 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
24 ページ - I resided three years, and applied my self close to my studies: but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in...
140 ページ - 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: and yet...
51 ページ - This diversion is only practised by those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace, (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope ; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
8 ページ - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
231 ページ - He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
275 ページ - ... for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.
2 ページ - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.
213 ページ - They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures or amusements of life.