 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 страници
...fast. ' How can I help it,' says the Doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go righ't ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.' Lord-treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room,... | |
 | 1882 - 462 страници
...fast." "How can I help it." says the Doctor, "if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?" Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best...translation of Homer into English verse, for which, he said, he must have them all subscribe. " For," said he, " the author shall not begin to print till... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 страници
...fast. ' How can I help it,' says the Doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ? ' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...who had begun a translation of Homer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 страници
...How can I help it,' says the Doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that •won't go right ? ' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...who had begun a translation of Homer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 страници
...fast. ' How can I help it,' says the Doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ? ' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...who had begun a translation of Homer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 страници
...fast. ' How can I help it,' says the Doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ? ' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...who had begun a translation of Homer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1893 - 1008 страници
...fast," " How can I help it, "says the Doctor, " if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?" Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best...translation of Homer into English verse, for which, he said, he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print it till... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1870 - 290 страници
...his conscious authority, 4 instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope, who had begun a translation of Homer into English...for,' says he, ' the author shall not begin to print until I have a thousand guineas for him. 9 If this were the extent of what Swift anticipated from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 страници
...be for your service.'" In the following month Bishop Keunet, writing of Swift in his Diary, says : " Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best...says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.' " Swift's knowledge of Pope seems to have begun after the publication... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 страници
...recommended thy poem to Stella on March 9, 1713, and in November he was heard by Dr. Kennet "instructing a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...subscribe, ' for,' says he, ' the author shall not begin to priut till I have a thousand guineas fur him.' " The other magnates of the faction 1 Pope Mated, perhaps... | |
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Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I... 
