...myself very little) I must say a word or two out of complaisance to you. I am in my farm, and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold...gardener's phrase), and neither my enemies nor my friends * The Dunciad. Warburton. f The whole of this pleasant receipt is taken from the Lutrin of Boileau....

...myself very little) I must say a word or two out of complaisance to you. I am in my farm, and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold...gardener's phrase), and neither my enemies nor my friends • The Dunciad. Warburton. f The whole of this pleasant receipt is taken from the Lutrin of Boileau....

...communicating his satisfaction to his friend Swift. « I am in my own farm," says he, « and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again. » There is not, perhaps, a stronger instance in the world than his lordship, that an ambitious mind...

...communicating his satisfaction to his friend Swift. « I am in my own farm,» says he, « and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold of the earth, to'use a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant...

...Swift. "I am in my own farm," says be, "and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught bold sasy matter to transplant me again." There is not, perhaps, a stronger instance in the world than his...

...fowl." Bolingbroke himself, about the same time, thus addressed the dean : " I am in my farm, and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use the gardener's phrase ; and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant...

...communicating his satisfactions to his friend Swift. " I am in my own farm," says he, " and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." There is not, perhaps, a stronger instance in the -world than his Lordship, that an ambitious mind...

...eminent men. In writing to Swift; about this period, he says, " I am on my own farm, and here I ehoot strong and tenacious roots ; I have caught hold of...earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my friends nor my enemies will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." But he had not yet learned...

...Letters. t Pope's Letters, — Works, vol. ix. " I am in my farm," he tells Swift, " and here I CHAP. shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold...find it an easy matter to transplant me again. Adieu !"* — But, after all, we may apply to Bolingbroke what he said of Seneca, " All his big words were...

...el profond, qui lui procure de beaux songes: levez vous tard,' &c. &c. I am in my farm, and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots ; I have caught hold...earth (to use a gardener's phrase), and neither my friends nor my enemies will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." SWIFT TO POPE. " I have...