| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 páginas
...; he spoiled a fine gentleman." torn, and stand like an isthmus, between the whigs on one side, and violent tories on the other. They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against them. Lord Sotners has been twice in the queen's closet,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 páginas
...ministry is upon a very narrow bottom, and stand like an isthmus between the whigs on one side, and violent tories * on the other. They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against • The October Club. them. Lord Soiners has been twice... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 páginas
...a very narrow bottom, and stand like an isthmus between the whigs on one side, and violent tones * on the other. They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against . * The October Club. VOL. XIV. BB them. them. Lord Somers... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 336 páginas
...a very narrow bottom, and stand like an isthmus, between the whigs on one side, and violent lories on the other. They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against them. Lord Somers has been twice in the queen's closet,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 páginas
...ministry is upon a very narrow bottom, and stand like an isthmus between the Whigs on one side, and violent Tories on the other. They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against them. Lord Somers has been twice in the queen's closet,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 páginas
...Lady could \ The ministry had endeavoured to act upon a temporizing system. It stood, as Swift says, " like an isthmus between the Whigs on one side, and...They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against them." Lord Somers was seen more than once in the queen's... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1839 - 406 páginas
...dangerous, that even Swift was compelled to make an extraordinary confession : — " The kingdom is certainly ruined as much as bankrupt merchants. We...They are able seamen ; but the tempest is too great." Now, also, began a new system of intrigue. The queen began to perceive, that in her late conduct, she... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1839 - 410 páginas
...home increase ; the ministry are upon a narrow bottom, and stand like an isthmus, between the whiga on one side, and the violent tories on the other....They are able seamen ; but the tempest is too great." Now, also, began a new system of intrigue. The queen began to perceive, that in her late conduct, she... | |
| William Coxe - 1848 - 504 páginas
...of the violent Tories and Jacobites, under the guidance of Rochester. To give union and efficiency to their efforts, a powerful combination was formed,...They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great."* this predicament, therefore, both the sovereign and her ministers affected to court the countenance... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...beginning he pronounced, would be the rock upon which the ministry would split : " It stood," he said, " like an isthmus, between the Whigs on one side and...They are able seamen, but the tempest is too great, the ship too rotten, and the crew all against them." It is only surprising how, with such elements... | |
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