 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 422 pages
...' How can I help it,' says the doctor, * if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go ' right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...says he, ' the author shall not ' begin to print till 1 have a thousand guineas for ' him.' Lord treasurer, after leaving the queen, came through the room... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 414 pages
...' How can I help it,' says the doctor, * if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go ' right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...says he, ' the author shall not ' begin to print till 1 have a thousand guineas for ' him.' Lord treasurer, after leaving the queen, came through the room... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 414 pages
...'How can I help 'it,' says the doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go ' right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...says he, 'the author shall not ' begin to print till 1 have a thousand guineas for ' him.' Lord treasurer, after leaving the queen, came through the room... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 286 pages
...fast. " Hoiu can I help it" says the Doctor, " if the courtiers give me a watch that -won't go right ?" Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...of Homer into English verse, for which he must have 'em all subscribe ; " for," says he, " the author shall not begin to print till / have a thousand guineas... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...and business, and acted as master of requests. « Then he instructed a young nobleman that the lest poet in England was " Mr. Pope (a papist), who had...verse, for which he must have them all subscribe', ior, says be, the author " shall not begin to print till / fuvt a thousand guineas for him." About... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 492 pages
...fast.* ' How can I help it,' says the doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best...verse, for which ' he must have them all subscribe ;' c for,' says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...When I came to the antichamber to wait, before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. Then he...says he, the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that Steele, who was, with all his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...instructed a young nobleman that the best Poet " in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had be" gun a translation of Homer into English verse, for " which...he, the author shall not begin to print till / have 'ca thousand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that Steele, who was, with all his political... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...instructed a young nobleman that the best Poet " in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had be" gun a translation of Homer into English verse, for " which...says " he, the author shall not begin to print till I have " a thousand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that Steele, who was, with all his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...master of requests. Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in Englaitd was Mr. Pope, n papist, who had begun a translation of Homer into...have them all subscribe ; for, says he, the author ,thall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that... | |
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Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I... 
