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I will even venture to affirm that it is as dignified an amusement to run a tilt in favor of Virgil or Tasso against their assailants, as to run a barouche against a score of rival barouches; and though I own that, in Gulliver's land of the Houyhnhnms, the keeping up the breed of horses might have been the nobler patriotism, yet in Great Britain it is hitherto, at least, no contemptible exertion of skill and industry 'to keep up the breed of gentlemen."
By conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown into a habit; and my friends often tell me, in a blunt way, “that I trot like a horse;” which, however, I take for a great compliment.
In reading the following passage, it is impossible not to be reminded of the treatment of Sir Robert Walpole by his former flatterers and sycophants when his power seemed at an end: Some curious Houyhnhnms observe that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo, * who was always more deformed in body and mischievous in disposition than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favorite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master's feet * and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass's flesh.
Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat. The roof is made after the same manner, and so are the doors. The Houyhnhnms use the hollow part, between the pastern and the hoof of their fore-foot, as we do our hands, and this with greater dexterity than I could at first imagine.
Swedenborg, Emanuel: poetic rank, 202, 320; dreams, 306; Rosetta-Stone, 322; times mentioned, 382. Swedenborgians: liking for a paper of Carlyle's, 78; Reed's essay, 80; spiritual influx, 412. Swift, Jonathan: allusion, 30; the Houyhnhnms, 163; times mentioned, 382. Synagogue, illustration, 169. Tappan, Mrs. Caroline, The Dial, 159. Tartuffe, allusion, 312.
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