...gentleman of learning, good fortune, and family ; and a correspondent of Dr. Swift's. N. cretary, cretary, to let him know I would not dine with him if he dined late. By good luck the duke of Argyle was at the lobby of the house too, and I kept him in talk till the...

...that he was determined to exact this from them, without bating the smallest article. The circumstance is mentioned in the following passage of the Journal....state from the senate house, where he was engaged in the important business of the nation, upon so frivolous an occasion, we should be apt to consider...

...and sent Mr. Harley into the house to call the secretary, to let him know I would not dine with hJtn if he dined late." When this story is told, without...state from the senate house, where he was engaged in the important business of the nation, upon so frivolous an occasion, we should be apt to consider...

...characteristically enough, that he ' sent Mr. HARLEY into the House to call the Secretary [ST. JOHN], to let him know I would not dine with him if he dined late.' And then : — ' I have taken Mr. HARLKY into favour again. ... I will cease to visit him after dinner,...

...went to the Court of Requests at noon, and sent Mr. Harley into the House to call the Secretary, and let him know I would not dine with him if he dined late." From the beginning of 1711, too, Swift began to dine with Bolingbroke every Sunday, and during the...

...positively insolent to those who gave him of i their bounty. 'I sent Mr. Harley,' he wrote, 'into the House to let him know I would not dine with him if he dined late.' On another occasion, 'They called me nothing but Jonathan ; and I said I believed they would leave...