 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 páginas
...as an objection to his preferment, that ' because lie had humour he was supposed to have dealt with Swift; in like manner as when any one had learning...formerly he was thought to have dealt with the devil.' After all, however, it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggar's Opera, and that the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 páginas
...as an objection to his preferment, that " because he had humour he was supposed to have dealt with Swift ; in like manner as when any one had learning...formerly he was thought to have dealt with the devil." After all, however, it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggars' Opera, and that the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 páginas
...as an objection to his preferment, that " because he had humour he was supposed to have dealt with Swift; in like manner as when any one had learning...formerly he was thought to have dealt with the devil." After all, however, it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggars " Opera, and that the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 páginas
...sense ? In 's reign these fruitless lines were writ, When Ambrose Philips was preferr'd for wit I" Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are...the devil. He puts his whole trust at court in that lady6 whom I described to you ; and whom you take to be an allegorical creature of fancy. I wish she... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...world, every part of which he has long despised but what is made up of a few men like yourself. .... " Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are...formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil " Lord Bolingbroke had not the least harm by his fall ; I wish he had received no more by his other... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...world, every part of which he has long despised but what is made up of a few men like yourself. .... " Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are...have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when anyone had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil " Lord Bolingbroke had not... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...world, every part of which he has long despised but what is made up of a few men like yourself. .... " Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are...formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil " Lord Bolingbroke had not the least harm by his fall ; I wish he had received no more by his other... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 360 páginas
...see its real features more fairly than the timid shufflers who only dare to look up at life through " Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are...formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil " Lord Bolingbroke had not the least harm by his fall ; I wish he had received no more by his other... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 páginas
...world, every part of which he has long despised but what is made up of a few men like yourself. . . . -' Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are...formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil. . . . ' Lord Bolingbroke had not the least harm by his fall ; I wish he had received no more by his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 páginas
...what is made up of a few men like yourself. and that you incline more and more to your old friends "Our friend G-ay is used as the friends of Tories...have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when anyone had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil "Lord Bolingbroke had not... | |
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Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with... 
