 | Jonathan Swift - 1883
...that within some time after he left the town, and that he has not been heard of since." body but me. When I came to the anti-chamber to wait before prayers,...the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883
...BP. KENNET.* " 1713. — DR. SWIFT came into the coffeehouse, and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antichamber to wait before prayers,...the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883
...BP. KENNET.* " 1713. — DR. SWIFT came into the coffeehouse, and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antichamber to wait before prayers,...the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885
...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 till... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
...fast.1°7) '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 have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
...fast. ' Plow 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 Henry Davenport Adams - 1886
...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 must have them all subscribe, for," says he, " the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 460 страници
...subscribers. There is an amusing anecdote of how, in a coffee-house in 1713, Swift was seen informing "a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...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 have a thousand... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 457 страници
...fast. ' How can I help it,' 833*8 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 603 страници
...bow from everybody but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the ante-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal...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 have a thousand... | |
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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... 
