 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 páginas
...prepared for the Elector of Hanover's accession. "The Earl of Oxford," wrote Bolingbroke to Swift, " was removed on Tuesday ; the queen died on Sunday....a world is this ! and how does fortune banter us. . . . Here everything is quiet and will continue so. Besides which, as prosperity divided, misfortune... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 436 páginas
...ask ; for a day or two after, Queen Anne died and all was over, and another regime had begun. ' The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday, the queen died...a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!' writes Bolingbroke. It was such a stroke of the irony of fate as Swift himself might have invented,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 300 páginas
...withdraw with him from public life, was never known. For the victory of St. John was short indeed. "The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday, the Queen died...a world is this, and how does Fortune banter us!" writes Bolingbroke. It was such a stroke of the irony of fate as Swift himself might have invented,... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 páginas
...bound up, was not so much ruined as annihilated. " The Earl of Oxford," wrote Bolingbroke to Swift, " was removed on Tuesday. The Queen died on Sunday....What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us ! " CHAPTER VL STELLA AND VANESSA. THE final crash of the Tory administration found Swift approaching... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1897 - 304 páginas
...great politician and casuist, the duke.1 He is at Oxford with Mr. Clarke. August 3, 1714DEAR DEAN, THE Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday : the queen...John is against it. Ireland will be the scene of some 1 Perhaps the Duke of Ormond. disorder, at least it will be the scene of mortification to your friends.... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 584 páginas
...dead; long live the King!" It was the day, as the superstitious noted, of an eclipse of the sun.2 "The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday: the Queen died...What a world is this ! And how does Fortune banter us ! " 3 1 Sir R. Jenkinson, writing on August 1, 1714, at " two of the morning," to a Duchess unknown,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 384 páginas
...affords, perhaps, the best moral to the tale. To Swift he writes, two days after the death of Anne: " The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday ; the queen...died on Sunday ; what a world is this, and how does it banter us! " Unlike his rival, Oxford, however, his genius seemed to rise with the occasion: " I... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1902 - 344 páginas
...my soul is this : I see plainly that the Tory party is no more." To Swift Bolingbroke wrote : " The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday ; the Queen...a world is this, and how does fortune banter us." " It is true, my lord," replied Swift, " the events of five days last week might furnish morals for... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1902 - 404 páginas
...my soul is this : I see plainly that the Tory party is no more." To Swift Bolingbroke wrote : " The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday ; the Queen...a world is this, and how does fortune banter us." " It is true, my lord," replied Swift, " the events of five days last week might furnish morals for... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1903 - 452 páginas
...Bolingbroke. He fell Like Lucifer, Never to hope again. " The Earl of Oxford," wrote Bolingbroke to Swift, "was removed on Tuesday. The Queen died on Sunday....What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us !" On the accession of George I., Oxford retired to Herefordshire, but he was not to be left in peace.... | |
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The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday,— " the Queen died on Sunday! What a world is " this, and how does Fortune banter us !" says Bolingbroke.* * Letter to Swift, Aug. 
