 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - English letters - 1897 - 304 pages
...ever had, she should give up her present acquaintance for his friendship. You may see by this that you are not much injured by being supposed the author...best friends, in not giving us the least hint of it while you were with us ; and in particular Dr. Arbuthnot, who says it is ten thousand pities he had... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...fellow-creatures as Yahoos, and to charge him with misanthropy. The description 1 Journal to Stella. 2 ' From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the Cabinet Council to the nursery.' — Gay, letter to Swift, Nov. 17, 1726. of the Yahoos is not a mere libel on the human race. It teaches... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...fellow-creatures as Yahoos, and to charge him with misanthropy. The description 1 Journal to Stella. 2 ' From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the Cabinet Council to the nursery.' — Gay, letter to Swift, Nov. 17, 1726. 3 ' Gulliver's Travels,' Part IV., pp. 392, 393. of the Yahoos... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 340 pages
...map to search for Lilliput." Gay wrote a few days later : " The whole impression sold in a week. From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." " Here is a book come out," wrote Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "that all our people of taste run mad... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 350 pages
...map to search for Lilliput." Gay wrote a few days later : " The whole impression sold in a week. From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." " Here is a book come out," wrote Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, " that all our people of taste run mad... | |
 | Grolier Club - Best books - 1903 - 254 pages
...is in everybody's hands. . ." Gay wrote a few days later: "The whole impression sold in a week. From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." " Here is a book come out," says Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, " that all our people of taste run mad... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 308 pages
...you are the author ; but I am told, the bookseller declares he knows not from what hand it came. From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery. The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 pages
...you are the author ; but I am told the bookseller declares he knows not from what hand it came. From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the Cabinet Council to the nursery. The politicians, to a man, agree that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - 508 pages
...ever had, she should give up her present acquaintance for his friendship.2 You may see by this, that you are not much injured by being supposed the author...best friends, in not giving us the least hint of it while you were with us; and in particular Dr. Arbuthnot, who says it is ten thousand pities he had... | |
 | Grolier Club - English fiction - 1917 - 248 pages
...certain that his work was an immediate success. "The whole impression sold in a week," wrote Gay ; "from the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery"; and Lady Mary Montagu says: "Here is a book come out that all our people of taste run mad about," while... | |
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You may see by this that you are not much injured by being supposed the author of this piece. If you are, you have disobliged us, and two or three of your best friends, in not giving us the least hint of it while you were with us; and in particular Dr... 
