 | Patrick Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, Paul Martin - 2001 - 276 pages
...by Degrees they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to Fourscore. . . . When they came to Fourscore Years, which is reckoned...opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative; but uncapable of Friendship, and dead to all natural Affection, which never descended below their Grand-children.... | |
 | Michael Brogden - 2001 - 226 pages
...after which by degrees they grew melancholy and dejected . . . When they came to fourscore years, . . . they had not only all the follies and infirmities...old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospects of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative,... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 2001 - 290 pages
...struldbruggs of Gulliver's Travels (III), who live on and on with all "the infirmities of old men," and with "the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not...opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose. vain, talkative, but uncapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection." I can't imagine how it would be much different... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 396 pages
...their own confession, for, otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species bom in an age, were too few to form a general observation by. When...dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionalive, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship and dead to all... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...however, for their fabulous longevity is that they inescapably grow thoroughly melancholy and wretched: When they came to Fourscore Years, which is reckoned...opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative; but uncapable of Friendship, and dead to all natural Affection, which ever descended below their Grand-children.... | |
 | Frank Jackson, Graham Priest - 2004 - 306 pages
...Schrödinger's cats is the fate of the Struldbruggs: victims of eternal life without eternal health, who had not only all the follies and infirmities of other...opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative; but uncapable of Friendship, and dead to all natural Affection ... they lose their Teeth and Hair; they... | |
 | Stephen G. Post, Robert H. Binstock - 2004 - 490 pages
...Struldbrugs grow old just like everyone else. "When they come to fourscore years, . . . they [have] not only all the follies and infirmities of other...arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They [are] not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative; but uncapable of friendship,... | |
 | Stephen S. Hall - 2003 - 452 pages
...Jonathan Swift's decrepit and crabby Struldbruggs, who had "not only all the Follies and Inf1rmities of other old Men, but many more which arose from the dreadful Prospect of never dying." But that exceedingly improbable scenario would essentially require the simultaneous medical cure of... | |
 | Jeffrey Moore - 2007 - 328 pages
...years old, after which by degrees they grew melancholy and dejected. When they came to fourscore years, they had not only all the follies and infirmities...opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but uncapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection. Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2007 - 330 pages
...learned from their own confession; for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation...follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more 197 which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish,... | |
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When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. 
