 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...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 poet in England was...who had begun a translation of Homer into English for which he would have them all subscribe; Tor,' says he, 'he shall not begin to print till "Lord... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...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 poet in England was...who had begun a translation of Ho,mer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe ; ' For? says he, "he shall not begin to print till I have... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 448 páginas
...Roman Catholics. In his MS. Diary he appears much displeased with Swift, whom he heard "instructing a young nobleman that the best poet in " England was Mr. Pope — a Papist ! " (Sec Swift's Works, voL xvi. p. 100.) 1719. THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS. 329 trayed into some very... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 448 páginas
...Roman Catholics. In his MS. Diary he appears, much displeased with Swift, whom he heard " instructing a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope "—a Papist!" (See Swift's Works, vol. xvi. p. 100.) When we consider the powerful combination by which this Bill... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 páginas
...Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...to print till / have a thousand guineas for him.'" It was by Swift that Pope was introduced to the leading tories, particularly to Lord Oxford and Lord... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. 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." About this time it is likely that Steele, who was, with all his... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...the Doctor, '' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ?" Then he instructed a younjr nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope...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,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...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 poet in England was...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 páginas
...watch that won't go tichl Î' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the bcsl poet in England waa Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a translation of...Homer into English verse, for which ' he must have ihem all subscribe;' — ' for,' says he, 'the authol tliall not begin to print till / lave a thousand... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 páginas
...for which he must have them all subscribe; for, says he, the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him." About this time it is likely 87 that Steele, who was, with all his political fury, good-natured and officious, procured an interview... | |
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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... 
