 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...Dictionary of Catch Phrases, ed. Paul Beale (1985). 23 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. JONATHAN SWIFT, (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist. The king of Brobdingnag, in... | |
 | Gibson Burrell - 1997 - 260 pàgines
...above us humans we get a strong flavour of this: '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'. The recognition that we do crawl upon the face of the Earth is reflective perhaps... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 pàgines
...that is, notes, after he hears Gulliver's account of European civilization, that its natives must be "the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth." A comparison of his utopian supra-human kingdom with those of Europe could yield... | |
 | Richard Keller Simon - 1999 - 174 pàgines
...Brobdingnagian king tells Gulliver that the Europeans he praises so highly and describes so honestly are "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth" (II, 6, p. 173), and although Gulliver is at first greatly offended, he gradually... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2000 - 308 pàgines
...with much pains wringed and extorted from you, 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" (GT 154). 9. "Now it is impossible to conceive the incorporeal as a separate... | |
 | Alicia Chudo - 2000 - 255 pàgines
...legend has it, originally pronounced the words spoken to Gulliver by the king of Brobdingnag ("yours is the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth"); the confidante of those two arch enemies, Samuel Johnson and Lawrence Sterne;... | |
 | Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi - 2000 - 780 pàgines
...Lemuel Gulliver's description of European natives, the king of Brobdingnag concluded that they were "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." (Jonathan Swift, Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. In Four Parts.... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - 2000 - 262 pàgines
...political review of European culture to the Brobdingnagian king, only to f1nd himself denounced as one of "the most pernicious Race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth." Gulliver opens the gunpowder episode by saying he has learned: "It was in vain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 632 pàgines
...with slime. Mankind as viewed by him does not belie the description of it in Gulliver's Travels as " the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth." And indeed the spirit in which Shakspere conceived the character of Thersites is akin to that in which... | |
 | Robert Mayer - 2002 - 244 pàgines
...revealingly as to elicit the famous judgment: "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" (132). The flying island of Laputa is rendered with beautiful special effects.... | |
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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. 
