 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pàgines
...giving a few of the passages upon which my friend dwelt with most onction. POPE TO SWIFT. " Dawlty. " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading...attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes to the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pàgines
...from their correspondence. In a letter dated Dawley, June 28th, 1728, Pope writes to Swift : — ' I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading...admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. . . . As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here you might inquire of his haymakers ;... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pàgines
...m.— LORD BOLINGBROKE'S LIFE IN THE COUNTRY. Alexander Pope to Dr. Swift. DAWLBT, June 28th, K28. I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hayeocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pàgines
...of view. This letter is dated from Dawley, the country farm above mentioned, and begins thus : " I d head in Mrs. Frizzle's face. Mrs. Hard. And am I...would be his death. When he comes to be a little s the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 450 pàgines
...Bolingbroke in 1726, and was a frequent guest at Dawley during the two years he remained in England. " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading...diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what yon say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 426 pàgines
...Bolingbroke in 1726, and was a frequent guest at Dawley during the two years he remained in England. " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading...your letter between two hay-cocks ; but his attention ie somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 564 pàgines
...Bolingbroke in 172G, and was a frequent guest at Dawley during the two years he remained in England. " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay -cocks ; but his attention IB somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 pàgines
...the sunshine of the great man's presence. Writing to Swift in 1728, he (Pope) says that he is holding the pen "for my Lord Bolingbroke," who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks, with his attention occasionally distracted by a threatening shower. Bolingbroke is acting the temperate... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 pàgines
...points of view. This letter is dated from Dawley, the country farm above mentioned, and begins thus: "I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading...diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pàgines
...Dawlcy, the country farm above mentioned, and begins thus: "I now hold the pen for my Lord 1'olingbruke, is the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the... | |
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I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks; but his -attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower... 
