 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 578 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...all a wise man will expect from them. The Duchess of Marlborongh makes great court to me, but I am too old for her; yet I cultivate some young people's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...suite were civil to the writer who had known how to annoy their master's father; and this, said Pope, 'is all I ask from courtiers, and all a wise man will expect from them.' In noting some of the circumstances connected with Pope's activity as a satirist of men and women in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 532 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 £ ask from courtiers, and all a wise man will expect from them. The Duchess of Marlborough makes great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...Duchess, of Marlborough," writes the poet to Swift, April 28, 1739, in the last letter he sent to him, " makes great court to me, but I am too old for her, mind and body." It does not appear that she took part in the Grotto conferences, as it is evident from the correspondence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...suite were civil to the writer who had known how to annoy their master's father; and this, said Pope, ' is all I ask from courtiers, and all a wise man will expect from them.' In noting some of the circumstances connected with Pope's activity as a satirist of men and women in... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - Authors, English - 1875 - 404 pages
...that time the Duchess was very anxious to conciliate Pope. The year before he wrote to Swift — " The Duchess of Marlborough makes great court to me; but I am too old for her, mind and body." In 1742 she herself wrote to the Earl of Marchmont : — " Pray * * if you talk to Mr. Pope of me,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - Authors, English - 1875 - 404 pages
...very anxious to conciliate Pope. The year before he wrote to Swift — " The Duchess of Marlborougli makes great court to me; but I am too old for her, mind and body." In 1742 she herself wrote to the Earl of Marchmont : — "Pray * * if you talk to Mr. Pope of me, endeavour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 534 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 { ask from courtiers, and all a wise man will expect from them. The Duchess of Marlborough makes great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...Duchess of Marlborough," writes the poet to Swift, April 28, 1739, in the last letter he sent to him, " makes great court to me, but I am too old for her, mind and body." It does not appear that she took part in the Grotto conferences, as it is evident from the correspondence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...suite were civil to the writer who had known how to annoy their master's father; and this, said Pope, 'is all I ask from courtiers, and all a wise man will expect from them.' In noting some of the circumstances connected with Pope's activity as a satirist of men and women in... | |
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The Duchess of Marlborough makes great court to me ; but I am too old for her mind and body... 
