 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - 508 pages
...those they envy for being above them — so that you needed not to have been so secret upon this head. Motte received the copy, he tells me, he knew not...after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgement." I am pleased with the nature and quality of your present to the Princess. The Irish stuff... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 pages
...Motte,4 and a considerable amount of mystery was attached to its production. " Motte," writes Pope,s " received the copy, he tells me, he knew not from whence,...left England, so for my part I suspend my judgment." It pleased Swift's friends to humour his anonymity and keep up an affectation of ignorance on the matter.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 pages
...Motte,4 and a considerable amount of mystery was attached to its production. " Motte," writes Pope," " received the copy, he tells me, he knew not from whence,...left England, so for my part I suspend my judgment." It pleased Swift's friends to humour his anonymity and keep up an affectation of ignorance on the matter.... | |
 | Thomas Lucian Cline - Criticism - 1923 - 300 pages
...those they envy for being above them); so that you needed not to have been so secret upon this head. Motte received the copy, he tells me, he knew not...England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment." On the day after Pope's letter Gay wrote to Swift in terms of the highest praise. "About ten days ago... | |
 | England - 1926 - 896 pages
...the authorship of the work which brought him wealth and fame. He received the copy, he told Pope, " he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach." But his uncertainty, if ever it existed, did not last long. Within a year Swift was writing to Motte... | |
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Motte 8 received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment. 
