I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Страница 123по Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 страници
...Dawley, the country farm abovementioned, and begins thus : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, ctive to the rest. Where wealth and freedom somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 страници
...Dawley, the country farm above-mentioned, and begins thus : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 526 страници
...the country iarm above-mentioned, and began thus: — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 520 страници
...the country farm above-mentioned, and began thus: — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 страници
...pleasing. In one of his letters to Swift he says : — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
| 1862 - 656 страници
...Here is an idyll sketched by Pope in a letter to Swift : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1844 - 456 страници
...at Dawley, Pope, in one of his letters to Swift, says, " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 страници
...Dawley, the country farm abovementioned, and begins thus : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 страници
...LETTER LXXV. MR. POPE TO DR. SWIFT. Dawley, June 28, 1728. I NOW hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks : but his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 страници
...husbandry. Pope gives us as*ketch of this rural retreat : — I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear... | |
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