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Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:23:23 -0500

[Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Leave a comment on line 142 0 ¶ 143 Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Leave a comment on line 143 0 ¶ 144 Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. Leave a […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:16:01 -0500

[How vain are all these glories, all our pains, Leave a comment on line 15 0 ¶ 16 Unless good sense preserve what beauty gains:] Clarissa argues that beauty means very little without good sense and character. […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:08:48 -0500

[And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs; Leave a comment on line 122 0 ¶ 123 (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, Leave a comment on line 123 0 ¶ 124 And the nice conduct of a clouded cane) Leave a c […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:02:58 -0500

[Not youthful kings in battle seiz’d alive, Leave a comment on line 3 0 ¶ 4 Not scornful virgins who their charms survive, Leave a comment on line 4 0 ¶ 5 Not ardent lovers robb’d of all their bliss, Leave a comme […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:51:42 -0500

[(The victory cry’d) the glorious Prize is mine!] After cutting the lock, the Baron talks about his “glorious prize” as if he has accomplished something historically important. He even compares the lasting […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:47:54 -0500

[Too soon dejected, and too soon elate. Leave a comment on line 102 0 ¶ 103 Sudden, these honours shall be snatch’d away, Leave a comment on line 103 0 ¶ 104 And curs’d for ever this victorious day. Leave a comme […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:41:35 -0500

[To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note, Leave a comment on line 117 0 ¶ 118 We trust th’ important charge, the Petticoat: Leave a comment on line 118 0 ¶ 119 Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fai […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:34:03 -0500

[Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, Leave a comment on line 23 0 ¶ 24 And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. Leave a comment on line 24 1 ¶ 25 With hairy springes we the birds betray, Leave a c […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:12:52 -0500

[Th’ inferior Priestess, at her altar’s side, Leave a comment on line 127 0 ¶ 128 Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride.] What isn’t clear to me is what Pope means by calling Belinda’s beauty routine the […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:09:03 -0500

[ Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.] What isn’t clear to me is why Pope says that the Sylphs can “assume what sexes and what shapes they please (lines 69-70). I understand that the Sylphs are […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:54:30 -0500

In lines 28 through 32, Montagu repeats the phrase “For me” at the beginning of several lines. This repetition shows how many different people were affected by Flavia’s beauty and helps emphasize how important her […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:30:03 -0500

[‘No borrow’d lustre can my charms restore; Leave a comment on line 53 0 ¶ 54 ‘Beauty is fled, and dress is now no more!] Montagu repeats the idea that beauty is “no more” throughout the poem. This repeti […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:23:49 -0500

[Ah! faithless glass, my wonted bloom restore; Leave a comment on line 13 0 ¶ 14 ‘Alas! I rave, that bloom is now no more!] Montagu personifies the mirror by calling it a “faithless glass.” This makes the mi […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:34:31 -0500

[In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages.] Gulliver ends the Brobdingnag section by calling his time there “unfortunate” showing how shocked he is still about living among […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:32:02 -0500

[ Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people,] Gulliver is so used to the gigantic scale of Brobdingnag that […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:28:33 -0500

[or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound] Gulliver criticizes travel writing for inventing “barbarous customs and idolatry”, yet he himself has spent the entire […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:26:00 -0500

[ Leave a comment on paragraph 12 1 I could force nothing on him but a footman’s tooth, which I observed him to examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy for it.] Gulliver’s souvenirs are a […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:23:38 -0500

[I opened it in his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered.] This moment is the turning point of the paragraph as […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:19:31 -0500

[“that his suspicions were much increased by some very absurd speeches I had delivered at first to his sailors, and afterwards to himself, in relation to my closet or chest, as well as by my odd looks and b […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:16:13 -0500

[And, indeed, I was glad not to have been a spectator of the havoc they made, because I am confident it would have sensibly touched me, by bringing former passages into my mind, which I would rather have […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:12:25 -0500

[“I was an Englishman, drawn by ill fortune into the greatest calamity that ever any creature underwent, and begged, by all that was moving, to be delivered out of the dungeon I was in.”] Gulliver tells the sai […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:03:55 -0500

[I was the favourite of a great king and queen, and the delight of the whole court; but it was upon such a foot as ill became the dignity of humankind. I could never forget those domestic pledges I had left behind […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:32 -0500

[ the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion. ] Gulliver explains to the reader that even this kingdom, that presents itself as isolated, struggles as […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:56:19 -0500

[Their style is clear, masculine, and smooth, but not florid; for they avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary words, or using various expressions. ] He keeps criticizing them by implying their writing […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:53:28 -0500

[As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.] Gulliver says their legal system […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:50:39 -0500

[ And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads.] Gulliver is saying that the Borbdingnagians cannot grasp abstract concepts. This shows […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:47:33 -0500

[ yet he would rather lose half his kingdom, than be privy to such a secret; which he commanded me, as I valued any life, never to mention any more.”] The king insists that he doesn’t want anyone to know that h […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:44:53 -0500

[ This I humbly offered to his majesty, as a small tribute of acknowledgment, in turn for so many marks that I had received, of his royal favour and protection.] Gulliver is offering the king gunpowder as a […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:41:34 -0500

[3 1 But great allowances should be given to a king, who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:39:02 -0500

[Yet thus much I may be allowed to say in my own vindication, that I artfully eluded many of his questions, and gave to every point a more favourable turn, by many degrees, than the strictness of truth would […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:36:38 -0500

[The author’s love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected. ] This line shows that Gulliver thinks he is helping the king with a brilliant idea, but Swift hints t […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:26:24 -0500

[ I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”] The king is rejecting Gulliver’s p […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:23:28 -0500

[it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:19:04 -0500

[ for the notes he had taken were very particular in this point, because he hoped, as he told me, that the knowledge of our conduct might be useful to him, and he could not be deceived in his calculations.] I […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:16:27 -0500

[He asked, “What time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense? ] The king basically asks how long it takes England’s courts to figure out what’s right or wrong, a […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:13:47 -0500

[“What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most c […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:09:55 -0500

[for their great abilities and love of their country, to represent the wisdom of the whole nation.] Gulliver is claiming that the House of Commons is made up of super capable, patriotic people who represent […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:46:48 -0500

[I then spoke at large upon the constitution of an English parliament; partly made up of an illustrious body called the House of Peers;] Gulliver talks about England’s government like its perfect, especially […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:43:10 -0500

[I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.] His wish for “the tongue of […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:35:30 -0500

[but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent; and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great disadvantage to my […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 6, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:32:00 -0500

[ Leave a comment on paragraph 3 2 And this puts me in mind of an amusement, wherein I spent many of my leisure hours] Gulliver’s “amusement” shows how he uses creativity and craftsmanship to make himself […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:16:24 -0500

[He desired to know, “what I would have done upon such an occasion in my own country.”] I feel like this is sort of sweet as the king is genuinely showing interest in Gulliver’s perspective. However, this als […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:13:46 -0500

[Some of the people threw up stones, hoping to drive the monkey down; but this was strictly forbidden, or else, very probably, my brains had been dashed out.] The crowd tries to rescue Gulliver by throwing […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:09:47 -0500

[However, I desired Glumdalclitch to let me deal with it alone. I banged it a good while with one of my sculls, and at last forced it to leap out of the boat.] Gulliver insists on handling the threat himself, […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:07:19 -0500

[Sometimes I would put up my sail, and then my business was only to steer, while the ladies gave me a gale with their fans; and, when they were weary, some of their pages would blow my sail forward with their […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:04:15 -0500

[Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant.] Gulliver’s […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:01:34 -0500

[while I was placed on their toilet, directly before their naked bodies, which I am sure to me was very far from being a tempting sight, or from giving me any other emotions than those of horror and […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:58:36 -0500

[They would often strip me naked from top to toe, and lay me at full length in their bosoms; wherewith I was much disgusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins;] I feel as if […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:54:41 -0500

[ Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 This accident absolutely determined Glumdalclitch never to trust me abroad for the future out of her sight. I had been long afraid of this resolution, and therefore concealed […]

Hannah Doles commented on the post, Chapter 5, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:52:03 -0500

[But the thing was hushed up, and never known at court, for the girl was afraid of the queen’s anger; and truly, as to myself, I thought it would not be for my reputation, that such a story should go a […]