The textual history of Gulliver's Travelsnow becomes incredibly complicated, and Swift later disowned most versions, including Motte's first edition, saying it was so much altered that "I do hardly know mine own work".
His Jheri curl was replaced by a silken hair weave that framed and softened a face eventually so much altered by the surgeon's scalpel that it began to seem as if what was being sought by the singer was not some unattainable ideal of beauty but the limits of medical technology.
Writing in 1846, the clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones described it as one "so much altered by successive reparations, that little of its original architectural character has been preserved".
The bigger disappointment, however, is that much of the history that Ginsberg lived through and did so much to alter as a countercultural activist is missing.
They embrace and shake hands, these two black athletes who through their excellence and example have done so much to alter terrace attitudes to racial difference.
Well, DW Griffith and Chaplin, for sure, no matter that Griffith died as drunk and broke as Fitzgerald, no matter that Chaplin was banned from the country he had done so much to alter.
Job: director of television, ITV Age: 57 Industry: broadcasting 2012 ranking: 14 One show does not make a schedule, but rarely can a single programme have done so much to alter perceptions of a channel as murder mystery Broadchurch.
(Photograph: Max Vadukul George Langg, who died last night, was born a Hungarian Jew, one of the amazing vintage from that small enclosed country who did so much to alter Western civilization, and increase the gaiety of nations, in the twentieth century.
George Lang, who died last night, was born a Hungarian Jew, one of the amazing vintage from that small enclosed country who did so much to alter Western civilization, and increase the gaiety of nations, in the twentieth century.
