 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 394 pages
...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...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 allegorical creature... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 310 pages
...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 the devil. He prits his whole: trust at court in that lady* whom I described to you, and whom you take tobe an allegorical... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 352 pages
...are 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
...arc 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...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 allegorical creature... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 480 pages
...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 allegorical creature of fancy : I wish she really were Riches for his sake; though as for yours, I question whether (if you knew... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 452 pages
...letter to Swift, alluding to Mrs. Howard, says, " Guy puts his whole trust in that lady whom I described to you, and whom you take to be an allegorical creature of fancy." And Gay thus expresses himself to Swift, " Mrs. Howard has declared herself very strongly, both to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 pages
...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...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 allegorical creature... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 pages
...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...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 to her influence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pages
...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...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 to her influence... | |
 | 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
...as an objection to his preferment, that ' because lie had humour he was supposed to have dealt with Swift; in like manner as when any one had learning...formerly he was thought to have dealt with the devil.' After all, however, it must not be forgotten, that Gay had written the Beggar's Opera, and that the... | |
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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 the... 
