 and had a bow 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, and acted as a master of requests. lie was soliciting the Earl of Arran  Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Página 179de Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 733 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 páginas
...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,... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1875 - 430 páginas
...when I dined with him before." Bishop Kennet, in his diary, writes: "When I c.ime to the antechambers to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a mister of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormonde,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 646 páginas
...veneration we 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1878 - 504 páginas
...the coffee-house, and had a bow from every body but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the anti-chamber to wait, before prayers,...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 páginas
...see him at the height of his political inby a favourable hand, tedious Whig, Hi h* : DEAN SWIFT. 183 was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 420 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...talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormonde, to get a chaplain's... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 510 páginas
...MS. DIARY OF BP. KENNET.* " 1713.—DR. SWIFT came into the coffeehouse, and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antichamber to wait before...talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 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 man of talk and business, and acted as Minister of Requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond,... | |
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