 | John Timbs - 1872 - 434 páginas
...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...of Requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to apeak to his brother, the Duke of Orraond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 páginas
...into the coffee-house and had a bow from everybody but me. When I 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 - 1873 - 798 páginas
...the year 1713. " Dr. Swift come into the coffee-house, and had n how from every body but me. When I came to the antichamber to wait before prayers, Dr....Swift was the principal man of talk and business, arid acted as a master of requests. lie was soliciting ihe Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 páginas
...into the coffcehouse and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antechainber [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... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 404 páginas
...and therefore somewhat adverse, pen of Bishop Keimet: — " 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,... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1875 - 430 páginas
...when I dined with him before." Bishop Kennet, in his diary, writes : "When I came to the antechambers to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal...Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormonde, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull, for Mr. Fiddes. He was promising... | |
 | James Wills - 1876 - 738 páginas
...since. " 1713. — Dr Swift came into the coffee-house, and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the anti-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr...Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormonde, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr Fiddes, a clergyman in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...bow from everybody but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the antechamber 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... | |
 | Bombay city, univ - 1880 - 754 páginas
...6. Annotate the following, and show how they throw light 10 upon the lives of Swift or Pope :— (a) Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. (b) A IK! by mentioning with some indignation the inscription on the Monument.... | |
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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... 
