 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 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 * Mrs. Howard. Gay trusted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 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 * Mrs. Howard. Gay trusted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 pages
...the consequences of the fall of Godolphin's administration. " Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Preni, Nee tarn aversus equos Tyria Sol jungit ab urbe."...Dean Swift to Lord Peterborough, dated 28th April, 1728. and Lockit was universally believed to be an allusion to a personal collision which had taken... | |
 | 1824 - 618 pages
...of the minister to shut the court against a politician of Swift's bold, dexterous, and enterprizing character, who had avowedly great changes to propose...it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggar's Opera, and that the quarrel between Peachum and Lockit was umversally believed to be an allusion... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 pages
...court against a politician of Swift's bold, dexterous, and enterprising character, who VOL. II.—16 had avowedly great changes to propose in Irish politics,...Beggars' Opera, and that the quarrel between Peachum and Lockit was universally believed to be an allusion to a personal collision which had taken place... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 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 lady6 whom I described to you ; and whom you take to be an... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 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 " Lord Bolingbroke had not the least harm by his fall ; I wish he had received no more by his other... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 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 " 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 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 " 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 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. . . . ' Lord Bolingbroke had not the least harm by his fall ; I wish he had received no more by his... | |
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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... 
