 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...made a present of his book of Travels to Dr. Swift, in the blank leaf of whiph he wrote the following To Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion,...truest friend, And the greatest genius of his age, This Book is presented by hi* Mod humble servant, The AUTHOR. the church in great danger, notwithstanding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...a Tub, sent him a copy of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines: TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion,...truest friend, And the greatest genius of his age, This Book is presented by his Most humble servant, THE AHTHOH. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 336 pages
...present of his book of Travels to Dt Swift ; in the black leaf of which he wrote the following words : " To Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, And the greatest geoins of his age, This book is presented by his. , Jfiost humble servant, The AUTHOR.": IC so successfully... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 404 pages
...Tub, sent him a copy of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines : TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion,...truest friend, And the greatest genius of his age. This Book u presented by his Most humble Servant, THE AUTHOB. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 pages
...Melchisedec." person. A copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author." * Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...Melchisedec." person. A copy of Addisoii's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author." * Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...the nobility, of the eighteenth century. Addison, who damned others with faint praise, in 1709 called Swift " the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his times " ; and nearly ten years later wrote to him thus : " I have always honored you for your good-nature,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 pages
...third person. A copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed « To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the au1 The proprietor of the Grange in Hampshire,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pages
...Melchisedec." » A copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author."* Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...third person. A copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age, this book is presented by his most humble servant, the author."! Nor was Swift backward in expressing... | |
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To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age. 
