 | Jonathan Swift - Fiction - 1992 - 290 pages
...like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; nor from down to up, like the Cascagians;65 but aslant from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads direcdy downwards; because they hold an opinion, that in eleven... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...the left to the right, like the Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians . . . but aslant from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England." The concerns just discussed were shared, in part, by many of Swift's contemporary satirists — especially... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; nor from down to up, like the Cascagians; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like our Ladies in England" (PW, u: 57) — was taken in large part from Sir William Temple's description... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 464 pages
...their learning, which for many ages has flourished in all its branches among them ; but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the...of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Cooke Taylor - Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) - 1840 - 596 pages
...Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; BL but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion that in eleven... | |
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... their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese ; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other,... 
