 | George Hogarth - 1851 - 394 стор.
...knew him, and frequently went to hear him preach, thus mentions him in the Epilogue to the Satires : " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well." t This remarkable circumstance was related to Dr. Burney by one of the band . VOL. I. X With the exception... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 342 стор.
...he was in company with Talleyrand and Pozzo di Borgo the evening the * The passage was, I think, " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well." account of Buonaparte's death arrived (I, myself, dined hi company with Pozzo di Borgo that day). Talleyrand... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 316 стор.
...liberty to mention such a fact) ; was 1 " What did Pope mean, sir," asked Boswell, " by saying — ' Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well'?" " Why, sir," answered the Doctor, " he hoped it would vex somebody." — Has Swift (it may here be... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 стор.
...sometimes tells the same story over again — as of Lord Dudley's going * Tne passage was, I think, Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. out to walk with a person, and as he had the habit of speaking aloud to himself, being overheard to... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 292 стор.
...liberty to mention such a fact) ; was 1 " What did Pope mean, sir," asked Boswell, " by saying — ' Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ' ?" " Why, sir," answered the Doctor, " he hoped it would Tex somebody." — Has Swift (it may here... | |
 | 1855 - 340 стор.
...Foster, vicar of Rochdale, read the eminent dissenting preacher, James Foster, the well-known subject of Pope's lines : " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well." Page 516, line 7. (Note on " to take a copy of the Devil's handwriting.") These diabolical characters... | |
 | John Byrom - 1855 - 340 стор.
...Foster, vicar of Rochdale, read the eminent dissenting preacher, James Foster, the well-known subject of Pope's lines : " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well." Page 516, line 7. (Note on " to take a copy of the Devil's handwriting.") These diabolical characters... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 стор.
...nation's care : This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin,1 Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife,2 Outdo Landaff3 in doctrine, — yea, in life : Let humble Allen,4... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 стор.
...nation's care : This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin,1 Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife,2 Outdo Landaff3 in doctrine, — yea, in life : Let humble Allen,4... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1096 стор.
..."Nitric acid combined with argil!, forms the nitrate of argill." — Gregory's Diet., art. Chemistry. u Let modest Foster, if he will, excel! Ten Metropolitans in preaching well." — Горе, р. 414. UNDER RULE IX. — OF FINAL El "Aijectives ending in able signify capacity;... | |
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Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines, ' Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well;' then asked the doctor, ' Why did Pope say this ? 
