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Pàgina 23
... told him he would give no leave ; and when he printed them without , he declared it was much to his discontent ; the same sentiment is also more strongly expressed in a letter now in the hands of the publisher , * which was written by ...
... told him he would give no leave ; and when he printed them without , he declared it was much to his discontent ; the same sentiment is also more strongly expressed in a letter now in the hands of the publisher , * which was written by ...
Pàgina 31
... told the Dean , there were several facts he knew to be false , and that the whole was so much in the spirit of party - writing , that though it might have made a seasonable pamphlet in the time of. * See vol . iii . * The six volumes of ...
... told the Dean , there were several facts he knew to be false , and that the whole was so much in the spirit of party - writing , that though it might have made a seasonable pamphlet in the time of. * See vol . iii . * The six volumes of ...
Pàgina 32
... told a common friend , that since did not approve the history , he would cast it into the fire , though it was the best work he had ever written . However , it did not un- dergo this fate , and is said to be yet in being . " So says the ...
... told a common friend , that since did not approve the history , he would cast it into the fire , though it was the best work he had ever written . However , it did not un- dergo this fate , and is said to be yet in being . " So says the ...
Pàgina 42
... told , and of very little use , being a private fact : of which the reader would believe as little or as much as he thought good . He had , how- ever , a blotted copy by him , which he intended to have written over with many alterations ...
... told , and of very little use , being a private fact : of which the reader would believe as little or as much as he thought good . He had , how- ever , a blotted copy by him , which he intended to have written over with many alterations ...
Pàgina 43
... told the bookseller was much in pain , having given a good sum of money for the copy . " From the above passage it is evident that the first edi- tion was printed , without the Author's privity , from a surreptitious copy , and the ...
... told the bookseller was much in pain , having given a good sum of money for the copy . " From the above passage it is evident that the first edi- tion was printed , without the Author's privity , from a surreptitious copy , and the ...
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Pàgina 229 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
Pàgina 116 - than I can say ; I never remember any " weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet, " or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives " it, at the end of the year tis all very well.
Pàgina 139 - Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman.
Pàgina 242 - I was to see a poor poet, one Mr Diaper, in a nasty garret, very sick. I gave him twenty guineas from Lord Bolingbroke, and disposed the other sixty to two other authors...
Pàgina 313 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Pàgina 314 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Pàgina 209 - I take nothing ill of him but his not giving me timely notice, as he promised to do, if he found the Queen would do nothing for me.
Pàgina 267 - ... author's design was to bring in the Pretender; although there was not a single syllable of party in the whole treatise, and although it was known that the most eminent of those who professed his own principles, publicly disallowed his proceedings.
Pàgina 136 - MD's letter ? one of these oddcome-shortlies. This is a week old, you see, and no farther yet. Mr Harley desired I would dine with him again today ; but I refused him, for I fell out with him yesterday, and will not see him again till he makes me amends ; and so I go to bed.
Pàgina 295 - Motte 8 received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment.