 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 σελίδες
...have the following notice in Bishop Kennet's Diary, November, 1713. "When I came to the antichamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal...and business, and acted as a master of requests he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 σελίδες
...from every body but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the ante-chamber to wait, 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 poet in England was Mr. Pope... | |
 | 1854 - 598 σελίδες
...Whiggish, and therefore somewhat adverse pen of Bishop Eennet : When I came to the antechamber Cat court) to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 σελίδες
...Whiggish, and therefore somewhat adverse pen of Bishop Kennet : When I came to the antechamber Cat court) to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 σελίδες
...I have wholly shaken off that family."— 5. to S., Sept. 1710. came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond, to get a place for... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 788 σελίδες
...lo wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk turn business, and acted as a mnsler of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother ihe Duke of Ormond, lo eel a chaplain's place eeiabhthed in (he garrison of Hull tor Mr. Fiddes, a... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 σελίδες
...and therefore somewhat adverse pen of Bishop Kennet : — " When I came to the antechamber (at Court) to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1856 - 794 σελίδες
...came into the coffee-house, and had a how from every body but me. \\ he n I rsme to the aniicliamber to wait before prayers. Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and i ocled as a masier of requests. He wa* s iliciiing the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 σελίδες
...Swift came into the coffee-house, and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the ante-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal...Requests. He, was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to liis brother, the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 σελίδες
...have the following notice in Bishop Kennet's Diary, November, 1713. "When I came to the antechamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal...and business, and acted as a master of requests he instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a... | |
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He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a 'clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay... 
