| 单词 | Brobdingnag |
| 例句 | I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few of the true Gulliver’s journeys, to Lilliput and, briefly, to the land of the Brobdingnags, fall within the narrow Compass of this Narrative, which has been transported from my Time to yours. | 'Gulliver?s Travels': A Belly Big Enough to Be Seen From the 18th Century 2010-12-23T15:16:46Z There is even a sequence, borrowing loosely from Gulliver's second voyage to Brobdingnag, where Black, a tiny friend and a giant child all occupy the same frame in a CGI shootout. "Gulliver's Travels" relies too much on effects 2010-12-23T00:26:57Z Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants. Movies on TV this week: 'Toy Story' and 'Toy Story 2' on Freeform 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z And, like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in Brobdingnag, he is interrogated about his culture by his hosts so intensively that he begins to doubt his own human identity. Moon on the mind: two millennia of lunar literature 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z In the giants' realm of Brobdingnag, Gulliver even becomes a kind of human microscope. In retrospect: Gulliver's Travels : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z He's under the illusion that he's 10 times richer than he is, believes President Obama was born in Brobdingnag to the Queen of Sheba and thinks childhood vaccination caused the movie Rain Man. A Point of View: The rude, vulgar US presidential election - BBC News 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z As both the midget in the country of Brobdingnag and the giant on the island of Lilliput, Lemuel Gulliver—the protagonist of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels—experienced firsthand that size is relative. Size Illusions Trick the Brain 2012-07-21T12:15:00.217Z The official known as second-helper wields a Brobdingnag spoon, about two inches larger than a dinner-plate and fifteen feet long, which a couple of third-helpers, among them myself, fill with dolomite. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z She only knew that, as he appeared so instantly before her, he was like some creature out of Brobdingnag, seeming to fill all space with his presence. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Gulliver is attacked by giant wasps in Brobdingnag. In retrospect: Gulliver's Travels : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The whole man seemed but a single hand—a Brobdingnag hand affixed to the body of a Liliputian. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z When I studied the life of the great tree I was in the land of Brobdingnag; now I was verily a Gulliver in Lilliput. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z As an example, we may compare two famous cartoons by the English artist Gillray, "A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper" and the "King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver." The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Exaggerations which inform and do not deceive, as American humour, or Swift's Lilliputians, Aztecs, and giants of Brobdingnag, have instruction and amusement. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z That evening I went to the Royal Escurial Theatre, where Mademoiselle Goliathina was performing, and sat enthralled to witness her impersonation of the Queen of Brobdingnag. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Give Swift his world of Lilliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z So, wishing your Brobdingnag raspberries may turn out as well as ours, and longing to be all friends again, I am, with love to dear Arthur and self, your affectionate neighbour's son,Maurice Grant. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z The following passage in Gulliver’s Voyage to Brobdingnag, describing how the politics of Europe appeared to the King of Brobdingnag, shows us Swift himself in his larger mood of thought. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z "The Words of the King of Brobdingnag, As he held Captain Gulliver between his Finger and Thumb for the Inſpection of the Sages and Learned Men of the Court," *1 and A1. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Marise laughed aloud at the huge advertisements which disfigured the landscape; unpleasant-looking, giant men cut out of wood; Brobdingnag boys munching cakes; profile cows the size of elephants, and bottles tall as steeples. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z "Very well," said the spider, throwing into the waste-basket the letter he had just addressed to His Majesty the King of the Brobdingnags. Miss Muffet's Christmas Party To enter the room where these admirable instruments are kept, suggests the idea of going into a Brobdingnag watch-factory. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Specimens of the crops and fruits grown in the valley, some dried, some imitations in wax, heavy bunches of grapes, peaches wonderful as to size, Brobdingnag strawberries, and what not! The Truth About America The stories of the Lilliputians and Brobdingnags, purified from coarse allusions, are the delight of children; but the description of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos excites disgust and indignation. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) One can imagine how Swift might have introduced the subject in Grildrig’s conversations with the King of Brobdingnag. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed A little later he was Gulliver in Brobdingnag. In a Little Town The great Swift was gentle and sportive with him,115 as the enormous Brobdingnag maids of honour were with little Gulliver. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Fettered as I was by my Brobdingnag jacket and trousers, I felt a humiliating consciousness that any extraordinary gymnastic exertion was altogether out of my power. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Neither morality, nor a regard for probability are so outraged in the story of the Lilliputians and Brobdingnags. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) ‘Spangles,’ said His Majesty, who had lately seen me weighing one of the golden likenesses of our beloved Queen against a Brobdingnag spangle that had fallen from the dress of some maid of honour. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed As no man could walk or stand upright under such a load, so the Brobdingnags would have been powerless to move, despite, or rather because of, their enormous stature. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy It is much larger than a letter, unless, perhaps, one carries on a correspondence with a giant from Brobdingnag. Chimney-Pot Papers And he pointed to one that might have been used in Brobdingnag. Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites Another time I recollect we noticed some big buoys which were just the shape of fishing-floats, and which I said that Gulliver might have seen so used in Brobdingnag. The History of "Punch" Give Swift his world of Liliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable. Classic French Course in English The whole of the third volume, with the exception of the introduction and the two chapters relating to Brobdingnag, is derived from the Histoire des S�varambes, either in its English or French version. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Then he visits Brobdingnag, the land of giants. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year But being nice to me was not enough; it sort of made me feel like Gulliver in Brobdingnag. Highways in Hiding Brobdingnag, would you believe it, is a hump on the west coast of America and cannot be far from San Francisco. Journeys to Bagdad His voyage to Lilliput, his stay with the little people, and his adventures later among the giants of Brobdingnag, are classic. A Mother's List of Books for Children I do not know how it is, but it seems to me that every sermon I take now, every poor, little, innocent sermon comes bouncing out in the pulpit like a Brobdingnag. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter In the voyage to Lilliput he depreciates the court and ministers of George I., by comparing them to something insignificantly small: in the voyage to Brobdingnag by likening them to something grand and noble. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 They looked like a collection of burglar's implements from the land of Brobdingnag. Great Sea Stories Canterbury was almost as old and probably in worse repair than it is now, when Frisco was still Brobdingnag. Journeys to Bagdad Extremely diverting are Gulliver's adventures among the tiny Lilliputians; only less so are his more perilous encounters with the giants of Brobdingnag.... Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World The Brobdingnags, huge of stature, sinister of aspect, deeply distrustful of the rites in which they were about to participate, closed in about their teacher. Judith of the Plains He who had proved no tyrant in Lilliput, nor quailed before the enormities of Brobdingnag, might abhor the sight of me; he would not play me false. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance I am afraid to wander off by myself among these ladies: they inspect me as the maids of honor in the palace of Brobdingnag did Gulliver. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 It was contained in a glass bowl, capable of holding two gallons, standing upon a single stalk, and bearing the appearance of a Brobdingnag rummer. Newton Forster The little gloomy cabin was going hither and thither in a style which reminded him of the tossings of Gulliver's cage after it had been dropped into the sea by the Brobdingnag eagle. Overland Mary had been a member of the Yellett household for something over a week, and the intellectual conquest of her Brobdingnag pupils seemed as hopeless as on that first day. Judith of the Plains Gulliver's voyage to Brobdingnag and Gulliver's voyage to Lilliput. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December In his account of Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Swift tries to show that human greatness, goodness, beauty disappear if the scale be altered a little. From Chaucer to Tennyson The Voyages to Lilliput and to Brobdingnag were considered the best, and to them is to be attributed the greater part of the author's fame. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 As a black man never travels with a white one, there is also a negro car; which is a great, blundering, clumsy chest, such as Gulliver put to sea in, from the kingdom of Brobdingnag. American Notes Two other male Brobdingnags came from some sequestered spot in the landscape and joined Ben—Mary recognized two more pupils. Judith of the Plains As for an instant he bore it in his hands, it was like a puny Gulliver struggling with the molar of some vast Brobdingnag. McTeague The Frenchman thanked him and leant back in the carriage, feeling as if everything were incredibly huge and vast, like Gulliver in the country of the Brobdingnags. Alarms and Discursions The Voyage to Brobdingnag advocates the principles then held by the Tory party in England and attacks those of the Whigs. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 And the wigs jointly and severally looked like so many vast white and gray birds'-nests from Brobdingnag, with a black hole at the top of each, for the birds to creep out or in. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Ben, oldest of the Brobdingnag tribe, who had greeted Mary's request to be directed to "the house" as a bit of dry Eastern humor, led the herd to pasture. Judith of the Plains However, in one corner of the room, next the window, monstrous, distorted, brilliant, shining with a light of its own, stood the dentist's sign, the enormous golden tooth, the tooth of a Brobdingnag. McTeague But Theory was born in Brobdingnag, and Practice in Lilliput. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Brobdingnag lay on the northwest coast of the American continent. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. In the second voyage we go to Brobdingnag, where the people are of gigantic stature, and by contrast we are reminded of the petty "human insects" whom Gulliver represents. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Strategy must be employed with the intellectual conquest of the Brobdingnags. Judith of the Plains In Lilliput all the dimensions are scientifically computed on a scale one-twelfth as large as that of man; in Brobdingnag, by an exact reversal, everything is twelve times greater than among men. A History of English Literature Certainly, the voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag merit Leslie Stephen's criticism of being "almost the most delightful children's book ever written." Halleck's New English Literature On the second voyage Gulliver is abandoned in Brobdingnag, where the inhabitants are giants, and everything is done upon an enormous scale. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World The shores were overgrown with reeds—not the reeds that answer our European notions, but rather such as Gulliver was likely to meet with in his travels to Brobdingnag. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan There may be such in my friend Mr. Swift's Brobdingnag. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker In Brobdingnag, on the other hand, the coarseness of mankind is exhibited by the magnifying process. A History of English Literature The last two voyages are not pleasant reading, and one might wish that the author of two such inimitable tales as the adventures in Lilliput and Brobdingnag had stopped with these. Halleck's New English Literature The majority are Foresters, and wear green sashes, and carry banners like to the pictorial pocket-handkerchiefs of Brobdingnag. Without Prejudice As a contrast to what you have just read you may like to hear of Gulliver's first adventures in Brobdingnag, the land of giants. English Literature for Boys and Girls My good sir, don't you see, that all this stuff about Brobdingnag raspberries is to ward off your suit about the plum-tree? The Parent's Assistant It views an artist as Gulliver saw the Brobdingnag ladies. Idle Ideas in 1905 Neither children nor philosophers have yet wearied of reading the adventures of Captain Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Halleck's New English Literature They are rich people, and any room in their house in Brobdingnag Gardens would swallow up OUR humble cot. A Little Dinner at Timmin's How good old George, King of Brobdingnag, laughed at Gulliver-Boney, sailing about in his tank to make sport for their Majesties! John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character So, wishing your Brobdingnag raspberries may turn out as well as ours, and longing to be all friends again, I am, with love to dear Arthur and self, "Your affectionate neighbour's son, "MAURICE GRANT. The Parent's Assistant In the middle of the explanation a melodious sound was heard in the air above them, like a swarm of Brobdingnag bees. White Lies Gulliver next visits Brobdingnag, where the inhabitants are sixty feet tall, and the affairs of ordinary human beings appear petty and insignificant. Halleck's New English Literature And then with a whir of their deliciously scented wings, away they fly for good, whisking over the trees of Brobdingnag Square, and up into the sky, as the policeman touches his hat. A Little Dinner at Timmin's Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdingnag before your thought. An Essay on Man Take him to Brobdingnag, and he is Grildrig, the little Manikin. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Do you remember how Gulliver lost his awe of the tremendous Brobdingnag ladies? From Cornhill to Grand Cairo A Wonder and new Thing: as yet gamboling merely, in awkward Brobdingnag sport, not without quaintness; hardly in anger: yet in its huge half-vacant laugh lurks a shade of grimness,—which could unfold itself! The French Revolution She made inquiries at the baker's and at other places about the kitchens in the great houses in Brobdingnag Gardens, and how many spits, bangmarry-pans, and stoo-pans they had. A Little Dinner at Timmin's Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. A Little Dinner at Timmin's |
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