| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Dean, in the latter years of his life [in 1735], looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" She begged it of him, who made some excuse at the moment ; but on her birthday he presented her... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Dean, in the latter years of his life [in 1735], looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" She begged it of him, who made some excuse at the moment; but on her birthday he presented her with... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 pages
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God...faculties, * Thomas Swift was afterwards rector of Puttcnhatn in Surrey, and published a sermon in 1710, entitled "Noah's Dove, an Exhortation to peace."... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 pages
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, « Good...book!» — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlbo rough, in a similar declension of faculties, when, gazing on his own portrait, he uttered the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 pages
...ohserved the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the hook, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that hook !" — an exclamation which resemhles that of Marlhorough, in a similar declension of faculties,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 pages
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when 1 'wrote that book!" — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough, in a similar declension... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when 1 wrote that book !" — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough, in a similar declension... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 pages
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, — " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that hook." Scott's Life, p. 89. He considered this work to be the source of his favourable reception with... | |
| 1844 - 530 pages
...in,.an uncpns?;ipu,s soliloc[uy, i.^'.Good God,, what a genius I jb^l ,w^n u l .Wfrp^.l^at.jb^pkJ" An exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough in a similar declension of faculties, when gazing on his own por' *' '• lli" ( _'l**-"M'>'I(f l-> i^--in//i ;i - ' J,»'Uri3\'O'KI trait,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, "Good God!...what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" — an exclaдиооп which resembles that of Marlborpugh, in a similar declension of faculties, when, gazing... | |
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