| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 páginas
...help it,' said the Doctor, ' if the Courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...to print till / have a thousand guineas for him.' Lord Treasurer, after leaving the queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 páginas
...help it,1 says the doctor, 'if the courtiers give mea watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was...for which, 'he must have them all subscribe; for, saya he, the author shall not begin to print till / bare a thousand guineas for him.' Lord-treasurer,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...help that,' he replied, ' it ttw courtiers give me a watcli that won't go right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for,' saya be, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.* Lord-treasurer,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 318 páginas
...his conscious authority, " instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Popewho had begun a translation of Homer into English verse,...for," says he, " the author shall not begin to print until I have a thousand guineas for Aim." If this were the extent of what Swift anticipated from the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 páginas
...busiless, and acted as master of requests. — Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best Pof-t in England was Mr. Pope (a papist,) who had begun a translation ot" Homer into English verse, for which lie must fttivt- Utem all subscribe; for, says he, he author... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 306 páginas
...presided in the conversation, and, amongst other indications of his conscious authority, ' instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope, who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 480 páginas
...presided in the conversation, and, amongst other indications of his conscious authority, ' instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope, who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe... | |
| 1852 - 782 páginas
...i',' says the doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right Г Then he instructed re bal remole parle of AEÍU. What vieione of glory...he had indeed discovered a new continent, equal to subscribe;'—'for,' says he, 'the authot thall not begin to print till / have a thousand g iut him.'... | |
| 1852 - 782 páginas
...help i',' says the doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed But who forgets that white discrowned head, Those bursts of Reason's half-eziinguish'd Iranslaiion of Homer inlo English verse, for which ' he must have ihpm all subscribe;' — 'for,' says... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 páginas
...help it," said the Doctor, " if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?" Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...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... | |
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