 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 594 pages
...me ; yet I have no quarrel with their masters, nor think it of weight enough to complain of them. I am very well with the courtiers I ever was or would...Marlborough makes great court to me ; but I am too old frr her mind and body ; yet I cultivate some young people's friendship, because they may be honest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 pages
...me ; yet I have no quarrel with their masters, nor think it of weight enough to complain of them : I am very well with the Courtiers I ever was, or would...which is all I ask from Courtiers, and all a wise man * His late Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales. will expect from them. The Duchess of Marlborough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 pages
...me ; yet I have no quarrel with their masters, nor think it of weight enough to complain of them : I am very well with the Courtiers I ever was, or would...which is all I ask from Courtiers, and all a wise man ' His late Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales. will expect from them. The Duchess of Marlborough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...me; yet I have no quarrel with their masters, nor think it of weight enough to complain of them. I am very well with the courtiers I ever was, or would...with. At least they are civil to me, which is all I asbfrom courtiers, and all a wise man will expect from them. The Duchess of Marlborough makes great... | |
 | George Henry Rose - Great Britain - 1831 - 604 pages
...himself as follows respecting the Duchess of Marlborough, in a letter to Swift of the 17th May, 1739; 'The Duchess of Marlborough ' makes great court to me ; but I am too old for her, mind and body ;' thus closing this intelligence by an insinuation, which is as coarse as k is groundless, and, from... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 530 pages
...feeling on the part of the Duchess towards himself. He writes to Swift, on the 17th of May, 1739 :— " The Duchess of Marlborough makes great court to me ; but I am too old for her, mind and body." It is scarcely possible to mistake the impression intended to be conveyed by this passage. The Duchess,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...feeling on the part of the Duchess towards himself. He writes to Swift, on the 17th of May, 1739:—" The Duchess of Marlborough makes great court to me ; but I am too old for her, mind and body." It is scarcely possible to mistake the impression intended to be conveyed by this passage. The Duchess,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 pages
...quarrel with their masters, nor think it of weight enough to complain of them : I am very well acquainted with the courtiers I ever was or would be acquainted...makes great court to me, but I am too old for her ; yet I cultivate some young people's friendship, because they may be honest men ; whereas the old... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 554 pages
...quarrel with their masters, nor think it of weight enough to complain of them : I am very well acquainted with the courtiers I ever was or would be acquainted...makes great court to me, but I am too old for her ; yet I cultivate some young people's friendship, because they may be honest men ; whereas the old... | |
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The Duchess of Marlborough makes great court to me ; but I am too old for her mind and body... 
