 | Jonathan Swift - 1913 - 522 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... | |
 | Edna Worthley Underwood - 1919 - 184 páginas
...himself by making a garden. He wrote about it to Swift: "I am in my own farm. Here I shoot strong, tenacious roots. I have caught hold of the earth,...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." Gay, the poet, so Taine declares, was merely "a gardener at heart, deh'ghted to see the spring arrive,... | |
 | 1841 - 782 páginas
...the charcoal drawings on common farm-houscs.§ " I am in my farm," he wrote to Swift, " and here 1 shoot strong and tenacious roots. I have caught hold...will find it an easy matter to transplant me again." But Bolingbroke • 414,447. t 173. { Mr. Gilbert's Journal, Chester, 1768 : a curious little book,... | |
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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 gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me again. 
