 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 pages
...and wrote down several things as memoranda for him to do. He turned to the fire and took out his gold Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England • Printed Correspondence, Oct. 26,1718. was Mr. Pope, a Papist, who had begun a translation of Homer... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pages
...was too fast. ' How can I help it,' said the Doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet ha England c Printed Correspondence, Oct. 26, 1713. was Mr. Pope, a Papist, who had begun a translation... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1861 - 368 pages
...which he went about eulogising, saying, in coffee-houses, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope, who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe : adding, " the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him." Pope was at... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 pages
...Dean Swift presided in the conversation, and amongst other indications of his conscious authority, " instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr Pope, who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...was too 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,...who had begun a translation of Homer into English, for which he would have- them all subscribe ; " For," says he, " he shall not begin to print till I... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...too fast.' — ' How can I help i'.' 8aya the doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't D yA bzUN X Fٍr M r0 i {K ^ & E, 59 2 Fi! o B D l : C2g JV ܓ 閊 (n papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which ' he must hare them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 pages
...before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. Then he instructed a young nobleman that the best...in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun » translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have thtn all subscribe ; for, says he,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pages
...says the doctor, 'if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young 1 nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope...who had begun a translation of Homer into English for which he would have them all subscribe; Tor,' says he, 'he shall not begin to print till "The Secretary... | |
 | 1882 - 462 pages
...it was too 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...translation of Homer into English verse, for which, he said, he must have them all subscribe. " For," said he, " the author shall not begin to print till... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...was too 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,...who had begun a translation of Homer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I... | |
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if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' 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 said, he must have them all subscribe.... 
