| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 526 páginas
...not fail of communicating his satisfactions to his friend Swift. " I am in my own farm," says he, " and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use a gardner's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 páginas
...delighted to ride. In one of his letters to Swift, speaking of his favourite " Farm," he says, — "I have caught hold of the earth (to use a gardener's...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." Again, over the entrance of his farm was inscribed in prominent letters, — " SATIS BEATUS RURIS HONORIBUS."... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 476 páginas
...delighted to ride. In one of his letters to Swift, speaking of his favourite " Farm," he says, — "I have caught hold of the earth (to use a gardener's...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." Again, over the entrance of his farm was inscribed in prominent letters,— " SATIS BEATUS Rums HONORIBUS."... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 páginas
...not fail of communicating his satisfaction to his friend Swift. '* I am in my own farm," says he, " and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." There is not, perhaps, a stronger instance in the world than his lordship, that an ambitious mind can... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 páginas
...I concern myself very little) I must say a word or two out of complaisance to you. I am in my farm, and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again. Adieu. Let me hear from you, at least of you : I love you for a thousand things, for none more than... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 páginas
...painted with implements of husbandry, done in black crayon. " I am in my farm," he wrote to Swift; " and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots. I have...earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my friends nor my enemies will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." There is, truly, a fortitude... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 páginas
...in my own farm," he writes to Swift; " here I shoot strong 1>AWLEY, THE SEAT OF I.O1U) BOLINGBROKE. and tenacious roots ; I have caught hold of the earth,...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." And as a practical commentary on his text, he immediately commenced political agitation, joining with... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 páginas
...the society of eminent men. In writing to , Swift about this period, he says, " I am on my own farm, and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots ; I have...earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my friends nor my enemies will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." But he had not yet learned... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 536 páginas
...not fail of communicating his satisfaction to his friend Swift. " I am in my own farm," says he, " and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have...friends will find it an easy matter to transplant rue again." There is not, perhaps, a stronger instance in the world than his lordship, that an ambitious... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 páginas
...not fail of communicating his satisfactions to his friend Swift. " 1 am in my own farm," says he, " and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots : I have...a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my frieni.'s will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." There is not, perhaps, a stronger instance... | |
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