 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 pages
...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 the devil. He puts his whole trust at court in that lady* whom I described to you, and whom you take to be an... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 540 pages
...Whigs (and generally by Tories too). Becuufe he had humour, he was fuppofed to have dealt with Dr. Swift ; in like manner as when any one had learning...formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the Devil. He puts his whole truft at Court in that Lady * whom I defcribed to you ; and whom you take to be an... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 pages
...Whigs (and generally by Tories too). Becaufe he had humour, he was fuppofed to have dealt with Dr. Swift ; in like manner as when any one had learning...formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the Devil. He puts his whole truft at Court in that Lady * whom I defcribed to you ; and whom you take to be an... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 478 pages
...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 with the devil. He puts his whole trust at court in that lady* whom I described to you, and whom you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 394 pages
...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 the devil. He puts his whole trust at court in that lady* whom I described to you ; and whom you take, to be an... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 352 pages
...by whigs, and generally by lories too. Because he had humour he was supposed to have dealt wkh Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thoughl to have dealt with the devil. He puts his whol'.' trust at court in that lady* whom I described... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 486 pages
...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 the devil. He puts his whole trust at court in that lady * whom I described to you, and whom you take to be an... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 482 pages
...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 the devil. He puts his whole trust at court in that lady * whom I described to you, and whom you take to be an... | |
 | 1824 - 612 pages
...by the wits of the court. Swift had already successfully encountered and defeated, by the Dranier's letters, a favourite scheme of the arbitrary administration...it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggar's Opera, and that the quarrel between Peachum and Lockit was universally believed to be an allusion... | |
 | 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 pages
...dislike of Gay, of whom Pope had already said, as an objection to his preferment, that ' because lie had humour he was supposed to have dealt with Swift;...it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggar's Opera, and that the ijuarrel between Peachum and Lockit was universally believed to l>e an... | |
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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... 
