Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
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... weeks past . The facts your grace may have met with in every common news- paper ; but the springs of them are hardly discover- able even by those who had most opportunity of observing . Neither do I find those who should know best ...
... weeks past . The facts your grace may have met with in every common news- paper ; but the springs of them are hardly discover- able even by those who had most opportunity of observing . Neither do I find those who should know best ...
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... weeks by indisposition . Some time before the session , the duke above - mentioned went to all those lords , who , by the narrowness of their fortunes , have depended on the court , and engaged them to vote against the ministry , by ...
... weeks by indisposition . Some time before the session , the duke above - mentioned went to all those lords , who , by the narrowness of their fortunes , have depended on the court , and engaged them to vote against the ministry , by ...
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... weeks past we have heard less of the pretender than formerly . I suppose it is , like a fashion , got into Ireland , when it is out here : but , in my conscience , I do not think any one person in the court or ministry here designs any ...
... weeks past we have heard less of the pretender than formerly . I suppose it is , like a fashion , got into Ireland , when it is out here : but , in my conscience , I do not think any one person in the court or ministry here designs any ...
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... week . I am sensible that I have often deceived your grace with my wise inuendoes . Yet , I verily think that my intelligence was very right at the moment I sent it . If I had writ to your grace six days ago , I would have ven- tured to ...
... week . I am sensible that I have often deceived your grace with my wise inuendoes . Yet , I verily think that my intelligence was very right at the moment I sent it . If I had writ to your grace six days ago , I would have ven- tured to ...
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... kingdoms . I am in hopes yet that your grace may pay your treat ; for it is yet four weeks to November , at least It should be too visible to be doubted of.-S. I believe we shall be happy , or ruined , EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE . 25.
... kingdoms . I am in hopes yet that your grace may pay your treat ; for it is yet four weeks to November , at least It should be too visible to be doubted of.-S. I believe we shall be happy , or ruined , EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE . 25.
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a-year acquaintance Addison Adieu affairs answer ARCHBISHOP KING assure Barber believe Bishop Bishop of Rochester brother church court Dean deanery DEAR SIR desire DR ARBUTHNOT Dr Swift dragon Dublin Duchess DUCHESS OF ORMOND Duke of Ormond Duke of Shrewsbury Earl of Oxford endeavour England esteem favour friends friendship give grace greatest hear heartily Herefordshire honour hope house of lords humble servant Ireland July July 17 kingdom Lady Masham late leave letter live London Lord Bolingbroke lord chancellor Lord Harley Lord Oxford lord-lieutenant lord-treasurer lordship majesty ment ministers ministry never obedient obliged occasion opinion parliament party peace person pleased Pope pounds Pray present pretend queen reason received sent soon sure talk tell thing thought told tory town trouble whigs wish writ write
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Сторінка 471 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads, and noblest hearts.
Сторінка 483 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Сторінка 204 - The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday,— " the Queen died on Sunday! What a world is " this, and how does Fortune banter us !" says Bolingbroke.* * Letter to Swift, Aug.
Сторінка 100 - he shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.' Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him, — both went off just before prayers.
Сторінка 248 - Poor philosopher Berkeley has now the idea]- of health, which was very hard to produce in him ; for he had an idea of a strange fever upon him so strong, that it was very hard to destroy it by introducing a contrary one.
Сторінка 100 - 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 (a Papist), who had begun a 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 I have a thousand guineas for him.
Сторінка 257 - I am naturally no very exact correspondent, and, when I leave a country without a probability of returning, I think as seldom as I can of what I loved or esteemed in it, to avoid the desiderium which of all things makes life most uneasy. But you must give me leave to add one thing, that you talk at your ease, being wholly unconcerned in public events : for, if your friends the Whigs continue, you may hope for some favour ; if the Tories return3, you are at least sure of quiet.
Сторінка 99 - Esq., going in with the red bag to the Queen, and told him aloud he had something to say to him from my Lord Treasurer.
Сторінка 191 - I may prevail to renew your licence of absence, conditionally you will be present with me ; for to-morrow morning I shall be a private person. When I have settled my domestic affairs here, I go to Wimple ; thence, alone, to Herefordshire. If I have not tired you tete a tete, fling away so much time upon one, who loves you.
Сторінка 142 - ... between twelve and one. At eight we have some bread and butter and a glass of ale, and at ten he goes to bed. Wine is a stranger, except a little I sent him ; of which, one evening in two, we have a pint between us. His wife has been this month twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her ; and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk, and do not speak as many words as I have now writ in three days...