 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1893 - 1008 pages
...goes 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," says he, "the author shall not begin to print it till... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1870 - 290 pages
...Dean Swift presided in the conversation, and, amongst other indications of his conscious authority, 4 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 538 pages
...recommended the poem to Stella on March I>, 1713, and in November he was heard by Dr. Kennet " instructing a young nobleman that the best poet in England was...who had begun a translation of Homer into English veree, for which ho must have them all subscribe, ' for,' says ho, ' the author shall not begin to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 434 pages
...ho was too fast. " How can I help it," said the Doctor, "if the courtiers give me a watch that wont go right?" Then he instructed a young nobleman that...in England was Mr. Pope, a Papist, who had begun a translauon of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe ; " for," says he,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 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,...in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translat1on of Homer into English, for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, '... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...courtiers give me a watch that won't go right 1 ' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet m England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), 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 until I... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...'if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that iho best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun n translation of Homer into English verse, for which 'he must have ihcm all subscribe;' — 'for,'... | |
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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.... 
