 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...points of view. This letter is dated from Dawley, the country farm above mentioned, and begins thus : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is...diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 536 pages
...of view. This letter is dated from Dawley, the country farm above-mentioned, and begins thus : — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hny-cocks ; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 540 pages
...of view. This letter is dated from Dawley, the country farm above-mentioned, and begins thus : — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is...diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 554 pages
...the insignia and even the implements of husbandry. Pope gives us a sketch of this rural retreat : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is...admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in the triumvirate, between yourself and me ; tho' he says that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...Bolingbroke's way of life during his rural retirement is given in one of Pope's letters to Swift : " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is...admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. He is pleased with your placing him in triumvirate, between yourself and me ; though he says that he... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...way of life during his rural retirement is given in one of Pope's letters to Swift : " I now hold tho pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter...not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of ft shower. He is pleased with your placing him in triumvirate, between yourself and me ; though he... | |
 | 1857 - 632 pages
...Bolingbroke's way of life during his rural retirement is given in one of Pope's letters to Swift : — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks ; bat his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 578 pages
...rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; bat his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 pages
...of view. This letter is dated from Dawley, the country farm above-mentioned, and begins thus : — " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cock? ; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by catting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 654 pages
...Bolingbroke's way of life during his rural retirement is given in one of Pope's letters to Swift : — " I DOW hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks ; hut his attention is somewhat diverted by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what... | |
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I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower. 
