 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pągines
...book of Travels to Dr. Swift, in the blank leaf of whiph he wrote the following To Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, And the greatest genius of his age, This Book is presented by hi* Mod humble servant, The AUTHOR. the church in great danger, notwithstanding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pągines
...of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines: TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, And the greatest genius of his age, This Book is presented by his Most humble servant, THE AHTHOH. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 pągines
...copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author." * Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 404 pągines
...of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines : TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, And the greatest genius of his age. This Book u presented by his Most humble Servant, THE AUTHOB. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pągines
...nobility, of the eighteenth century. Addison, who damned others with faint praise, in 1709 called Swift " the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his times " ; and nearly ten years later wrote to him thus : " I have always honored you for your good-nature,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 pągines
...copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed « To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the au1 The proprietor of the Grange in Hampshire,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pągines
...copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author."* Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pągines
...copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author."! Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
 | George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley (hon.) - 1840 - 952 pągines
...of his day. t Addison afterwards presented his Travels to Swift, thus — " To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." — Scott's Memoirs of Swift. from the moment of his introduction, entering into conversation with... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 276 pągines
...with." * A presentation copy of his Travels was thus inscribed by Addison : " To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant the author." The circumstance is worthy of notice... | |
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To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age. 
