 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...particular knack. Bowles. EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL. HIGHNESS. I AM his Highness's Dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you ? The idea of this inscription is taken from Sir William Temple's " Heads designed for an Essay on... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...particular knack. Bowles. EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. I AM his Highness's Dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you ? The idea of this inscription is taken from Sir William Temple's " Heads designed for an Essay on... | |
 | 1833 - 98 pages
...there would have been afforded for the exhibition of the owner's wit upon the necklaces. Pope's — " I am his Highness's dog at Kew, Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you 7" would have been nothing compared to some of them. And then, five pounds for the board and lodging... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 pages
...knack, God save ye. 10 EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OP A DOG, WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. I AM his highness's dog at Kew : Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? * 1 Philips. Ambrose Philips. * Budgell. Eustace Budgell. — Carey. Henry Carey. * Whose dog are... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...Temple of Poetry. — In the heads on Conversation, we see the original of an epigram of Pope's — ' I am his Highness's dog at Kew, Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you ?' ' Mr. Grantam's fool's reply to a great man who asked whose fool he was. — ' I am Mr. Grantam's... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - English fiction - 1857 - 396 pages
...who might make inquiries as to his character or pretensions, as did the Duke's dog of other days — "I am His Highness's dog at Kew, Pray, tell me, sir, whose dog are you t " And Emily Fitch fondled him, and had him stuffed — before death — with the best of meat, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...knack,4 God save ye. EPIGRAM. ENGRAVED 0«t THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 1 AM his highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? i Ambrose Philips. 2 Eustace Budgell. 8 Henry Carey. 4 Curll said, that in prose he was equal to... | |
 | Periodicals - 1881 - 588 pages
...recall the inscription on the collar of the dog presented by him to Frederick, Prince of Wales — " I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?" The feeling thrown into the translation from Homer which we have quoted above, would almost stand sponsor... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...metre ballad-mongers. SHARSPERE. — King Heury IV. Part I. Act IIL Scene 1. (Hotspur to Glendower.) I am his Highness's dog at Kew ! Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? POPE. — On the Collar of a Dog he gave to the Prince. The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...knack,4 God save ye. EPIGKAM. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH 1 GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 1 AM His Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? 1 Ambrose Philips. 2 Eustace BuJgell. 8 Henry Carey. 4 Curll said, that in prose he was equal to... | |
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I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? On the Collar of a Dog. 
