 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 pagina’s
...man, says : — " Dr. Swift came into the coffee-house and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before...Lord Treasurer, that he should obtain a salary of 200Z. per annum as member of the English Church at Eotterdam. He stopped P. Gwynne, Esquire, going... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 480 pagina’s
...man, says : — " Dr. Swift came into the coffee-house and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before...business. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to hia brother, the Duke of Ormond, to get a place for a clergyman. He was promising Mr. Thorold to undertake,... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 pagina’s
...of triumph, from the Whiggish, and therefore somewhat adverse, pen of Bishop Kennet : — " When I came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 404 pagina’s
...season of triumph, from the Whiggish, and therefore somewhat adverse, pen of Bishop Keimet: — " When I came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 pagina’s
...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, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1875 - 430 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | James Wills - 1876 - 738 pagina’s
...Swift came into the coffee-house, and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the anti-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr Swift 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pagina’s
...bow from everybody but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the antechamber to wait, before prayers, Dr. Swift was 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pagina’s
...befow prayers, i^. Swifk 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 place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pagina’s
...begin with; it put me in mind of Sir William Temple." — Ibid. a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before...get a place for a clergyman. He was promising Mr. Tliorokl to undertake with \ny Lord Treasurer, that he should obtain a salary of 200/. per annum as... | |
| |
When I came to the ante-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift 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 place... 
