 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...book of Travels to Dr. Swift, in the blank leaf of whiph he wrote the following To Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The 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 - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines: TO DR. 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 AHTHOH. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 686 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 404 pages
...of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines : TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1868 - 766 pages
...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 - Authors, Irish - 1826 - 334 pages
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley (hon.) - 1840 - 952 pages
...of his day. t Addison afterwards presented his Travels to Swift, thus — " To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age." — Scott's Memoirs of Swift. from the moment of his introduction, entering into conversation with... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Authors, English - 1843 - 276 pages
...with." * A presentation copy of his Travels was thus inscribed by Addison : " To Dr. 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." The circumstance is worthy of notice... | |
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To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age. 
