 | Thomas Lucian Cline - 1923 - 300 páginas
...satire to those they envy for being above them); so that you needed not to have been so secret upon this head. Motte received the copy, he tells me, he...England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment." On the day after Pope's letter Gay wrote to Swift in terms of the highest praise. "About ten days ago... | |
 | 1926 - 896 páginas
...the authorship of the work which brought him wealth and fame. He received the copy, he told Pope, " he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach." But his uncertainty, if ever it existed, did not last long. Within a year Swift was writing to Motte... | |
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Motte * received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney-coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment. 
