 We had little politics ; though he gave me, in a few words, such a character of Pitt, as one great man should give of another his rival : much of books, from my own, on which he flattered me very pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights ; much about...  The Monthly magazine - Page 267by Monthly literary register - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights ; much about the country, my garden (which he understands far better than I do), and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister. The next morning I gave him a guide to walk him about the town and country, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights ; much about the country, my garden (which he understands far better than I do), and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister. The next morning I gave him a guide to walk him about the town and country, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights ; much aboilt the country, my garden (which he understands far better than I do), and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister. The next morning I gave him a guide to walk him about the town and country, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1896 - 450 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian nights ; much about the country, my garden (which he understands far better than I do), and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he Minister. The next morning I gave him a guide to walk him about the town and country, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights ; much at>out the country, my garden (which he understands far better than I do) ; and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister" (Carres., ii, 180). He was accompanied by his mistress, whom he afterwards married.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1902 - 808 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights; much about the country, my garden, (which he understands far better than I do) ; and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister. — GIBBON, EDWARD, 1788, Correspondence, Oct. 4, p. 331. He, too, is fall'n,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1808 - 1122 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer and the Arabian Nights : much about the country, my garden, (which he understands far better than I do) and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister. The next morning 1 gave him a guide to walk him about the town and country, and... | |
 | 1800 - 442 pages
...pleasantly, to Homer, and the Arabian Nights — much about the country ; my garden, (which he understands far better than I do) and, upon the whole, I think he envies me, and would do so were he minister. The following day he continued his journey to Bern and Zurich, and I have heard... | |
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