 I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.  The British Essayists - Page 73edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - English language - 1903 - 360 pages
...frequently in our coffee-houses, we shall certainly put them to flight, and cut off the rear. . . . I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of Mobb and Banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - English language - 1903 - 152 pages
...BANTERERS, biters are, in their several species, the modern men of wit. 1710. SWIFT, Tatler, 230. 7. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the Progress of Mobb and BANTER. Ibid. Tale of a Tub (Apology), n. Peter's BANTER (as he calls it in his Alsatic phrase)... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...consists in the choice of certain words, invented by some pretty fellows, such as banter, bamboozle, country put, and kidney, as it is there applied; some...utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1916 - 684 pages
...and shortenings like phizz, mob, rep. He pillories banter, bamboozle, country put, kidney, adding ' I have done my utmost for some years past to stop...progress of mob and banter, but have been plainly bore down by numbers.' Accordingly, he appeals to Isaac Bickerstaff to make use of his authority as... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1916 - 674 pages
...and shortenings like phizz, mob, rep. He pillories banter, bamboozle, country put, kidney, adding * I have done my utmost for some years past to stop...progress of mob and banter, but have been plainly bore down by numbers/ Accordingly, he appeals to Isaac Bickerstaff to make use of his authority as... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1917 - 758 pages
...absolveth, and shortenings like phizz, mob, rep. He pillories banter, bamboozle, country put, kidney, adding "I have done my utmost for some years past to stop...progress of mob and banter, but have been plainly bore down by numbers." Accordingly, he appeals to Isaac Bickerstaff to make use of his authority as... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 506 pages
...Tho. Brown, vol. ii (1705), p. 67. 3 About the same time, in The Taller, No. 230, Swift wrote: ' 1 have done my utmost for some Years past to stop the Progress of Mobb and Banter, but have been plainly born down by Numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 368 pages
...consists in the choice of certain words invented by some pretty fellows ; such as banter, bamboozle, country put, and kidney, as it is there applied ;...utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...consists in the choice of certain words invented by some pretty fellows; such as banter, bamboozle, country put, and kidney, as it is there applied; some...possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed... | |
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