From Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
HOW OFTEN THEN I WISHED
"Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praises of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity."
From Part Two: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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