 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 halaman
...1834, p. 77) says: — ' Mrs. Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life [in 1735], looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book...Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" She begged it of him, who made some excuse at the moment ; but on her birthday he presented her... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 halaman
...1834, p. 77) says :—• Mrs. Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life [in 1735], looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book...Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" She begged it of him, who made some excuse at the moment; but on her birthday he presented her with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 halaman
...following anecdote may be depended upon. Mrs Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book,...Marlborough, in a similar declension of faculties, * Thomas Swift was afterwards rector of Puttenham in Surrey, and published a sermon in 1710, entitled... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 halaman
...following anecdote may be depended upon. Mrs Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book,...Marlborough, in a similar declension of faculties, * Thomas Swift was afterwards rector of Puttcnhatn in Surrey, and published a sermon in 1710, entitled... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 halaman
...following anecdote may be depended upon. Mrs Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book,...book!» — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlbo rough, in a similar declension of faculties, when, gazing on his own portrait, he uttered the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 halaman
...ohserved the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the hook, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that hook !" — an exclamation which resemhles that of Marlhorough, in a similar declension of faculties,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 halaman
...following anecdote may be depended upon. Mrs. Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book,...unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when 1 'wrote that book!" — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough, in a similar declension... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 halaman
...following anecdote may be depended upon. Mrs. Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book,...unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when 1 wrote that book !" — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough, in a similar declension... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 halaman
...-3, he was called the MAD PARSON. 9 Mrs. Whiteway observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book,..." Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that hook." Scott's Life, p. 89. He considered this work to be the source of his favourable reception with... | |
 | 1844 - 530 halaman
...in,.an uncpns?;ipu,s soliloc[uy, i.^'.Good God,, what a genius I jb^l ,w^n u l .Wfrp^.l^at.jb^pkJ" An exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough...similar declension of faculties, when gazing on his own por' *' '• lli" ( _'l**-"M'>'I(f l-> i^--in//i ;i - ' J,»'Uri3\'O'KI trait, he uttered the pathetic... | |
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Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book! 
