 THE work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys....  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 764edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt, when first he landed in Brobdignag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...ATOrk of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn...oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt, when first he landed in Brobdignag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt, when first he landed in Brobdignag, the fashion of their morals, with their hats and their coaches ; take some other and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 670 pages
...colossal Life of Burkigh filled him with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag and saw corn as...oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. What would Macaulay have said of this Brobdingnagian tome 1 At any... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt, when first he landed in Brobdignag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt, when first he landed in Brobdignag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdignag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component port of it, is ou a gigantic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt, when first he landed in Brobdigtiag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of il, is on a gigantic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lomuol Gullivei telt when he first landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the...oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic... | |
| |
