 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1914 - 532 pages
...haughty, sensitive young secretary had troubles, little Esther knew them. Years after he wrote to her : " Don't you remember how I used to be in pain, when...cold and out of humour for three or four days, and suspect a hundred reasons ? " That " don't you remember?" ! It recurs in the 'Journal,' suggesting... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...remember," he says to Stella, "how I used to be in pain when Sir W. Temple would look cold and out of humor for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons?"), developing by hard study his mighty intellect, boldly challenging the insincerity of his age in the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1926 - 396 pages
...you get over them ? you are puzzled sometimes. Why, I think what I said to Mr Secretary was right. Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir...four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman. I dined with my neighbour... | |
 | Dorothy Osborne, Carrie Hintz, William Temple - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 217 pages
...speculation about the Temple-Swift rapport, some of it fuelled by Swift's remarks in Journal to Stella: 'Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when...four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons? I have pluckt up my spirit since then, faith; he spoiled a fine gentleman.'33 Temple had at least a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...Observations upon Lord Orrery's "Remarks, &c." in Swift. London, 1754. 6.34 or run on his honour's errands.* * "Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when...four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons? I have plucked up my spirits since then, faith; he spoiled a fine gentleman."— -Journal to Stella.... | |
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Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman. 
