MEMORY in Classic Quotes

1  And thus, in a few days, by the help of a very faithful memory, I got some insight into their language.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.

2  I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.

3  But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong an impression on my mind, and is so deeply fixed in my memory, that, in committing it to paper I did not omit one material circumstance: however, upon a strict review, I blotted out several passages.

Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.

4  For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.

5  For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.

6  My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.

Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.