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Gulliver's Travels5 passages
Gulliver, PART iv, 163b-164b✓ correct
The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos, a strange sort of animal, described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms.
I continued at home with my wife and children about five months, in a very happy condition, if I could have learned the lesson of… Read the rest of this passage →
Gulliver, PART i, 26a-b✓ correct
The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years,… Read the rest of this passage →
Gulliver, PART 11, 73a-74b
The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years,… Read the rest of this passage →
Gulliver, PART iv, 151b-152a God, BK xin, CH 3, 361c; CH 15 366c-d; BK xiv, CH 5-10 379c-385d; BK xix, CH 12-14 trine, BK i, CH 24 630c-631a✓ correct
The author studies to learn the language. The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. The language described. Several Houyhnhnms of quality come out of curiosity to see the author. He gives his master a short account of his voyage.
My principal endeavour was to learn the language, which my master (for so I shall henceforth call him), and his children, and every servant of his house, were… Read the rest of this passage →
Gulliver, PART m, 103b-115b
The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years,… Read the rest of this passage →
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