 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - 308 pages
...discredited Gulliver's praise of Britain, the King concludes that "the Bulk of your Natives [must] be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth" (108)—probably about what Swift believed. By the end of his Travels,... | |
 | Gibson Burrell - 1997 - 260 pages
...and in the following quotation from those who tower above us humans we get a strong flavour of this: 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...good time was had by all" in Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, ed. Paul Beale (1985). 23 I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...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,... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 pages
...supermen, 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...fierce indignatlon can no longer tear his heart. 11313 Gulliver's Travels 'A Voyage to Brobdingnag 1 perniclous race of little odlous vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the... | |
 | Richard Keller Simon - 1999 - 174 pages
...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,... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2000 - 308 pages
...Brobdingnag's comment after Gulliver has recounted the political, legal, and social customs of the English: "by what I have gathered from your own relation, and...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... | |
 | Susanne Stark - 2000 - 488 pages
...1 am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many Vices of your Country. But, by what 1 have gathered from your own Relation, and the Answers...of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of liule odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. (II, vi, 1 8)... | |
 | Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi - 2000 - 780 pages
...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.... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - 2000 - 262 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
