 | 1854 - 598 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 Mr. Pope (e Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 páginas
...Swift was the principal m;;m of Mik 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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 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...author shall not begin to print till / have a thousand guinciis for him. Lord-Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift... | |
 | 1857 - 494 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...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,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 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...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 - 572 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 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 : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...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...says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.'" In 1720, when Pope had reached his thirtysecond year, the translation... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 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...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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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... 
