 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...always at his table. The manner in which his notice began of rae was as singular as it was ]x>lit?. He came up to me one day as I was at the Princess of Wales'* court, and said, ' I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - Authors, English - 1882 - 348 pages
...me, was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me one day, as I was at the Princess of Wales' s Court. " I want to know you, Mr. Sterne ; but it is...heard" (continued he) "of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom j'our Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much. I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c., always at his table. The manner in which his notice began of me was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me one day as I was at the Princess of Wales's court, and said, ' I want to know 3'ou, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 pages
...Pope, Swift, Prior, etc. etc., always at hie table. The manner in which his notice began of me was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me, one day, as I was at the Princess of Wales' court. ' I want to kno» you, Mr. Sterne ; but it is fit you should knosv also, who it is that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c., always at his table. The manner in which his notice began of me was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me one day as I was at the Princess of Wales's court, and said, ' I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1883 - 880 pages
...as it was polite. He came tip to me one da}' as I was at the Princess of Wales' 9 court, and said, * I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c., always at his table. The manner in which his notice began of me was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me one day as I was at the Princess of Wales's Court, and comfortable blank in the heart in such a situation : for, notwithstanding all we meet with in books,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c., always at his table. The manner in which his notice began of me was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me one day as I was at the Princess of Wales's court, and said, 'I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...as it was polite. He came up to me one (lay as I was at the Princess of Wales's court, and said, ' I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c., always at his table. The manner in which his notice began of me was as singular as it was polite. He came up to me one day as I was at the Princess of Wales's court, and said, - I want to know you. Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes... | |
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I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast... 
