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| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pages
...quod obstat, Ad Mecaenatem memori si mente recurras. Hoc juvat, et melli est, non rncntiar. ii • I doubt not, if his lordship knew — And, Mr. Dean,...it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend f, And chose me for an humble friend ; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this... | |
| British essayists - 1803 - 310 pages
...Gallina Syro par .Malutina parum cautosjam frigora mordent : Et qutE rimosa ben£ deponuntur in aure, ' 'Tis (let me see) three years and more, (October next it will be four) Since Harley bade me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend ; Wou'd take me in his coach to chat, And question... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 pages
...Imitations of Horace, lib. 2, sat. 6, to some lines in which this whim seems to have given liiQ : " Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next...it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 528 pages
...three years and more, (Oftobee next it will be four) Since Harley bid me firft attend, 85 And chofe me for an humble friend ; "Would take me in his coach to chat, And queftion me of this and that ; As, « What 's o'clock ?'• And, " How 's tbe « Whofc chariot 's that... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...satisfied, I'll do my best : Then presently he falls to teaze, . You may for certain if you please ; " I doubt not, if his lordship knew— " And, Mr. Dean,...word from you."— 'Tis (let me see) three years and mow, (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 472 pages
...à quatre heures. » Dans une seconde épître, encore imitée d'Horace, il continue sa narration : Tis, let me see, three years and more, October next...it will be four, Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend. "Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and... | |
| John Aikin - 1806 - 346 pages
...of facility is obtained. The colloquial touches in the following lines are admirable in this view : 'Tis (let me see) three years and more, (October next it will be four.) — My lord — the honour you design'd — Extremely proud — but I had diu'd — Though many more... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...three years and more, (October next it will be four) Since HARI.EY bid me firft attend, 85 And chofe me for an humble friend ; Would take me in his Coach to chat, And queftion me of this and that ; As, "What's o'clock?" And, "How's the Wind?" «« Who's Chariot's that... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...80 " I doubt not, if his Lordfhip knew — " And, Mr. Dean, one word from you" — 'Tis (let me fee) three years and more, (October next it will be four) Since HARLEY bid me firft attend, 85 And chofe me for an humble friend ; Would take me in his Coach to chat, And queftion... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...; I'll do my best :"TThen presently he falls to tease, 1 You may for certain, if you please; 80 • I doubt not, if his Lordship knew — ' And, Mr. Dean,...bid me first attend, 85 And chose me for an humble fiiend ; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that ; As, ' What's o'clock... | |
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